Word: hues
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train approached the Russian border, my attention was attracted by a flag of the Soviet Government flying from the top of the frontier station. Doubtless it was once red, perhaps deep red, . . . but the winds had whipped it and the elements had beaten it until its carmine hue had faded. It looked colorless...
...disturbing the University's program. Bent on securing practical knowledge, they miss most of what Harvard offers in true culture--the broadening and deepening of the student's background. The American spirit of utility has put Harvard under constant pressure to serve these men better; the hue and cry has been to make the college a more particular preparation for the world. And by putting itself in competition with professional training-schools, the college has had to let go some of its older ideals, at the expense of those students who still seek learning for its general advantage rather than...
...every student in the College should wear a paper cap colored with a certain hue to represent the state of the Union from which he comes, the lecture room of Comp. Lit. 12 for instance would resemble an overgrown pansy bed and the paths of the Yard would eclipse the most enthusiastic rainbow...
When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "This Side of Paradise", there was a great hue and cry; when "Flappers and Philosophers" appeared, there was still a hue, and somewhat less of a cry; "The Beautiful and Damned" evoked merely a cry;--the best comment on "Tales of the Jazz Age" is dead silence. However, this space must be filled, and a reviewer cannot write, like Hilaire Belloc, on "Nothing". But we will be brief. Perpend...
...possible to make the events of one period live in the minds of future generations, and it all cannot be recreated what should be stressed and what discarded? Today the hue and cry is raised against any history which subordinates the economic development of a nation to the temporary piling up of events during a war. Look at a history of Norman England written in the present style. The Battle of Crecy is laid out, a decisive battle, to be sure, but as bare of any imagination stimulating incident as a scrimmage between two sandlot football team. The picturesque...