Word: colors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number of original drawings by masters of the old English water-color school are now on view at the Fogg Museum. The artists represented are: Samuel Prout, David Cox, Peter DeWint, Henry Edridge, Thomas Girtin, Paul Sanby and John Varley. These are all characteristic examples, and serve to show what were the artistic ideals, and the technical methods, which prevailed in the English School of the early part of the century now closing. While more or less conventional in both conception and treatment, these works are generally well composed and exhibit the skill in the use of pure water-color...
...Register for 1899-1900 will be published about January 1, immediately after the Harvard Catalogue is issued. This year the Register will be the same in form and price as last year's volume. The only innovation will be the publication, under the list of clubs, of each club-color and the location of each club-house. The book is edited this year by M. W. Barber...
...increased towards 1.15, and the stands were practically all filled at 1.45. A slight haze partially obscured the sun, and the wind blew lightly across the field from the south. The afternoon was excellent for football, but in spite of the gray overcoat and dark cloaks there was considerable color on the Harvard and Yale stands. The field was hard and freshly marked out. A great number of people came out by way of Western avenue and Allston. The band had special seats within the enclosure, at the southwest corner of the field, and played familiar and inspiring Harvard airs...
...Fair Day, the writer describes the shop of Mickey Doonan, the village blacksmith, and then skilfully introduces upon the scene some of Mickey's "boon companions." In the dialogue which follows there is both vigor and movement, and wherever the writer used exposition or description there is always color and atmosphere. Towards the close of the story there are numerous little touches of humor, of which only a very few sound strained. "There's Just One Girl," by Edward Richard, is a frail story of the expanded daily theme type, which, while it shows a good deal of cleverness...
...best pieces in the current number of the Lampoon are the bits of verse. Among the poetical squibs are several which are rich in both humor and local color...