Word: colored
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Much as Harvard men may resent the charge recently considered in this column, to the effect that university athletics are entirely committed to a small number of players while the rest stand by in lazy indifference, it must be admitted that the necessity for such appeals as this gives color to the imputation, even in the eyes of persons better informed than the one who uttered...
...Gawain through these adventures without making him appear ridiculous. He is pictured as modest, brave, courteous and steadfast in faith. Even King Arthur is not the shadowy phantom we usually meet with, but real flesh and blood. The descriptions of the hunts are unsurpassed in English poetry and lend color and reality to the plot. Not the least remarkable characteristic of this poem is its elevated morality, a great contrast to the loose morals of most romances. This beautiful poem shows us what a genius could do with materials borrowed from France...
...disfranchisement of the negro would be an injustice.- (a) It is a discrimination on account of color.- (b) It is unjust to discriminate between an ignorant negro and an ignorant white man.- (c) It springs from prejudice: The Negro question, 3; The Silent South, 1.- (d) It would cause taxation without representation.- (e) It would make the government of some of the Southern States an obligarchy...
...same exhibition room the curator has just placed a beautiful cluster of the flowers of the snow-plant of the Sierras. It was given to the Museum by Mr. O. B. Henshaw, who obtained it this summer in Eastern California. Much of the brilliant red color of the plant has been lost, but the from is perfectly preserved. The plant receives its name from occurrence near or sometimes in the snow of the higher western mountains...
...Those now on the walls of the larger gallery illustrate the works of Raphael, Michael Angelo, and Leonardo da Vinci, while in the smaller gallery a selection from the designs of the earlier Italian masters will be found. This gallery contains also a few copies in water and oil color from portions of important examples of Florentine and Venetian painting, a few excellent copies from water color drawings by Turner, and a few facsimiles from typical examples of French manuscript illuminations of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. A collection of nearly fifteen thousand photographs will be made accessible to students...