Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...colors. The aim has been to make the grouping as effective and beautiful, from an artistic point of view, as is possible. The colors shade from black through purple, garnet, orange, light blue, to creamy white and white. The borders of the different garments are on the Greek key pattern and are carefully selected so as to give a harmonious combination of colors. The other ornamentations are principally in silver and gold. In the matters of scenery, too, it has been the aim of the managers to have it perfectly consistent. It is worked up from illustrations and descriptions...
Oscar Wilde said a few days ago that he considered Yale men very rude. He thinks that if Yale would pattern after Harvard more closely it would be in every respect a much better university...
...preparing a discus for the use of the spring meeting, Professor White intends to secure the measurements and a pattern of the discus in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and, perhaps, of certain ones in the British Museum, and then have several manufactured from these patterns for our use. This will be done as soon as possible so that practice may commence at once. Professor White himself intends to appear on the field and take part in the practice. Although the sport would seem to be decidedly more graceful, and, as regards exercise at least, more satisfactory than putting...
...belt of an improved pattern has been received for the '83 team...
...system of self-government by college students is not altogether a new and untried experiment in the history of education. Whether the frequenters at the Academy at Athens in classic times were held under the strict sway of a model "paternal" government, of the most approved American pattern, or whether they thrived upon elective courses in conduct, as well as in studies (see Professor Clapp in the last Nation, who believes election in one necessarily implies election in the other) is a question perhaps beyond our powers to determine. Young America, alas, did not exist in those days...