Word: colors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...those who grope in the shadow of uncertainty, the analogy between human life and the spectrum of light is comforting. We can see but a small part of the rays; those which give the shades of color, while the rays which come before and after the spectrum are invisible. Thus it is with life--the unknown past, the illuminated present, and the unseen future of human existence should not make us doubt the reality of what we cannot see. Out eyes and ears are finite, and receive no impressions of infinite things. They dupe us, and make us blind...
...Exhibition Room of Robinson Hall, to last throughout this week, from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. The drawings, about one hundred in number, are divided into two classes, one consisting entirely of architectural designs and the other of all the remaining contributions, such as water color sketches, pen and ink drawings, pencil sketches, book covers and illustrations, book-plates. Lampoon originals, and posters...
...Museum has received from Mr. Charles T. Murray, the water-color drawing of Devonport by J. M. W. Turner, a work of which John Ruskin, who once owned it, wrote--"No more wonderful drawing, take it all for all, exists by Turner's hand...
From Mr. E. W. Forbes '95 the Museum has received, as an indefinite loan, an early water-color by Turner; this loan brings the number of Turner's originals now in the Museum up to five, each one representing a different period in the artist's development...
...that the society should place a stone tablet in some conspicuous place, such as between the two entrances to University Hall, on which should be carved a plan of the Yard. The idea is to have each addition to the Yard of ground or buildings made in a different color, with the date upon which it was acquired. At the meeting last night a committee was appointed to drew up definite plans and estimates for the tablet...