Word: hues
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...endeavour to combine the beauties of all literature in one produced heterogeneousness in form and matter. It was a mistake to transplant the poetic life of the middle ages into the present, and instead of giving a poetic hue to our modern life, to make poetry the focus of all human activity. A modern liter ature which deals exclusively in mediaeval ideas may be popular for a time as a curiosify, but it can not satisfy the taste of a modern nation for a long time...
...scholarships will truthfully attest. It is a notorious fact that its corps of professors and instructors is worse paid than at many of the smaller colleges, and yet they refuse the most tempting offers ot go elsewhere, sacrificing themselves for the love of their alma mater. And still the hue and cry continues, "Don't go to Harvard unless you are rich." It is impossible to see how such a mistaken impression about a place should exist where, in the very heart of its life, we find enshrined the spirit of Spartan poverty and simplicity...
...regard to the many communications which we have received on the subject of lighting the library, we would say that it has annually been our custom to add our voice to the general hue and cry in this matter. It has always seemed to us the one great fault in the otherwise excellent management of the college library that a place which was avowedly built for the use of the students should be closed to them at the hour when the majority of men are in the mood for work. As our correspondent of to-day truly remarks, the afternoon...
...teams were made up as follows: Harvard - Rushers, Harding, Faulkner, Butler, Smith; centre, Bartol, Mumford and Holden; quarter-back and captain, Fletcher; half-backs, Sears, Porter; full back, Boyden. Technology - Rushers, Vorce, Bartlett, Dame, Taintor; centre, Ladd, Tracy, Good-hue; quarter-back and captain, Herrick; half-backs, Wadsworth, Durfee; back, Duane. Mr. J. S. Fillmore was referee...
...sacrilegious son of Belial, who suffered from bronchitis, having exhausted his finances, in order to make good the deficit, resolved to ally himself to a comely, lenient and docile young lady of the Malay or Caucasian race. He accordingly purchased a calliope and a coral necklace of a chameleon hue, and securing a suite of rooms at a principal hotel, he engaged the head waiter as his conjutor. He then dispatched a letter of the most unexceptional caligraphy extant, inviting her to a matinee. She revolted at the idea, refused to consider herself sacrificable to his desires, and sent...