Word: colored
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Leland Stanford, Jr. has adopted cardinal as the University color...
...Minneapolis and went to Hotel West on arriving there. After the concert in Lyceum Theatre which was beautifully decorated, they were taken in carriages to Villa Rosa, the home of Mrs. Morrison, on Twenty-fourth Street. The house was artistically decorated with flowers and evergreens and the college color was everywhere to be seen. The Governor of Minnesota was expected but was unable to be present. Heffelfinger, who appeared to enjoy the "Hoodoo" song so much at the concert, was present at the reception with several other well-known Yale men. The next morning the fellows straggled back...
...education and one that is not too much like a specialist's. The pupils on leaving will be well equipped to begin life and will find no difficulty in obtaining a situation. A girl can learn dressmaking, that is manuals then in another department she can learn drawing and color and go still higher to the departments of art if she desires...
...character sketches which has appeared in the Advocate for some time is "The Awakening of Benjamin Franklin" ("last name, Jones," as the author himself parenthetically states). It is a little darkey of thirteen years, for whom heroine-worship does wonders, that the author describes and the touches of local color are carefully laid on. It is distinctly the best piece of prose in the issue...
...Adams is evidently a great admirer of Miss Austen, and, while at times he allows this heroic-worship to color some of his accounts, his story of her life is, in general, correct and readable. He tells of her "childhood at Steventon," her "first visit to Bath," her "removal to Bath," her enjoyment of society there, and a thousand and one things which are or interest to the admirers of Miss Austen. Mr. Adams spent the summer of 1889 in visiting all the localities once familiar to Jane Austen and the descriptions of Bath, Steventon, Chamton, and other places...