Word: painting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from restraint at Harvard, and the prestige of Harvard connections, have attracted a large number of social and worldly papillons from New York and Chicago society, whose lavish expenditures and dissolute living are no torious. Nevertheless, Cambridge is not a Capua or a Corinth, as Aleck Quest seems to paint it. Per contry, the moral tone of the students as a whole will bear comparison with that of any other body of students, with that of any other body of students, while in intellectual matters the ferment of thought and study is far more fruitful and vigorous than elsewhere...
...daubed the Library building with green paint, on the night of the triumph, ought to be kicked. It was certainly an act of vandalism. Although the bulk of the paint has been removed, the bricks are defaced and will remain so as long as the building stands Such acts as this will make the faculty shut down on the Triumph altogether, and the sophomores will have to celebrate it elsewhere...
...memory of their classmates who died during the war. The subject is from the sixth book of the Iliad and represents the parting of Hector from Andromache and his son Astyanax. The windows are five feet wide and fifteen feet high, and are of colored glass, no paint being used except in the flesh tones. The artist has been restricted in his use of the darker shades by the necessity of admitting as much light as possible into the Hall. One window is filled by the armed figure of Hector, while the other is given up to Andromache...
...such timidity in declining to enter into a "hat rush" with '90, that it was decided by upper-classmen that some punishment was necessary. Accordingly, the sophomores organized a court of equity, and three freshmen were arraigned and convicted. The sentence passed was that the number '91 should be painted in vermillon on a conspicious part of the persons of the accused freshmen. In the execution of the sentence, however, water was used instead of vermilion paint. The freshmen did not regard the joke in so agreeable a light as the rest of the college did, particularly as the sophomores...
...would be much more useful in aiding the higher education of Americans than is the present craze of founding universities. The "Presto, change!" of a millionaire cannot turn his money-bags into a university any more than he can manufacture a Rueben's by daubing $10,000 worth of paint upon a canvas. A true university ought to be the intellectual centre of a country, a place not only where a student can study the arts and sciences, but where the most intellectual men of the country can assemble and have time, apart from their teaching, to do original work...