Word: coloration
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Friday, the twenty-third, is the day! Seniors meet at 8 on the Widener steps; the "uniform of the day" will be overalls (color, condition and design not specified). Caps, tin cups, and a brass band will be provided, also lunch and "sundries". Seniors will ride in special cars to the waiting vacht and sail to the mysterious picnic ground, and the picnic will start. All will arrive at Harvard Square promptly at six. No cash, no cuts; costs nothing but a pair of overalls...
...until it had, so to speak, not a keg to stand on, while its more soberly-inclined colleague went down utterly before the forces of booze, news of the generous distribution of gold and silver medals among the two unhappy teams is astonishing to say the least, besides giving color to the rumors that Harvard is fast becoming Prussianized. We are told that the Germans were accustomed to stimulate their troops after a "strategic retreat" by a wholesale dispensation of Iron Crosses. If the Debating Council is pursuing this plan, then we heartily approve, for the worthy debaters unquestionably deserve...
...whenever we read, it is May for us again. The rich texture of Mr. Snow's "Ave atque Vale" is almost palpable Color and sumptuous description recall in lines like...
...that time all people wore loose flowing robes. The black color is merely an adaptation of the monastic habit. Similarly, the skull caps worn by ecclesiastics to protect their tonsored heads were copied by the educational institutions, and by them, as by the Church, were preserved after they had been elsewhere discarded. The round caps first became peaker, then, the peak degenerated to a tassel. Square cloth caps were introduced by the University of Paris. The two types seem to have been combined in the modern head dress used at graduation...
Owing to the difficulty of obtaining the proper Chinese dye, the shade gradually degenerated to magenta. For some years the college paper was called the "Magenta." Finally, however, the authorities revived the original shade and made it the official University color. The name of the paper was then changed to the "CRIMSON...