Word: hues
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...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...
...Miller of Providence. Mr. Miller has spent nearly two years of painstaking study and experiment on this work. And the result of it has been that even to the eye of the trained observer our collection has all the freshness and glow no less than the timeworn hue of original monuments of antiquity...
...some, college is an amusing four years, to some it means a Phi Beta Kappa key or an education, and to still others it is only four years of dull preparation for a life of banking or insurance. The last attitude has been increasing, to judge by the hue and cry recently raised about the passing of the old "cultural college". That business men, however, regard colleges as mere training schools for their assistants and successors becomes rather doubtful in view of Mr. Emerson's article in the current issue of "The Independent...