Word: hues
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Richer grew the hue of heaven...
...caused all the trouble by buying, ten years ago, for the University crew the nearest shade he could get to crimson completely silenced the sceptics. This change, or rather restoration, of the color of the University suggests the question whether the paper which bears the name of the discarded hue will cling to, or renounce, that name. Before our next issue that question will probably have been decided, and the result of the decision will be announced. But, under whatever color of the rainbow Harvard takes her stand, the Magenta, whatever may be its name, will devote itself...
...sent her flowers of gorgeous hue...
With his ribbon bright in hue...
Again, Union claimed the color in 1860. Before what tribunal? Where was it widely displayed? The color was claimed only by being worn by some of the students of Union. Now, who will deny the probability that a handkerchief or ribbon of the hue which is now called magenta was worn at some time by a student during the first two hundred and twenty years of Harvard's existence! Indeed, tradition reports that old John Harvard himself sported a deep crimson kerchief. Where, then, was Union...