Word: royale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following: Amherst, white and purple; Bowdoin, white; Brown, brown; Columbia, blue and white; Cornell, carnelian; Dartmouth, green; Harvard, crimson; New York, University of, violet; Pennsylvania, University of, blue and red; Princeton, orange; Rutgers, scarlet; Trinity, white and green; Tufts, blue and brown; Union, (magenta) or garnet; Wesleyan, lavender; Williams, royal purple; Yale, blue...
...John Winthrop was a professor of Physics and Astronomy in Harvard College. He was very well known, during the latter part of the last century, by several works on astronomy, which may be found among the publications of the Royal Society, of which he was a Fellow. He made the best observation of the transit of Venus taken during the eighteenth century. He also published some books on earthquakes. A short time ago a certain professor had the curiosity to ask all the professors here whether they knew anything of this once celebrated John Winthrop. Only two had ever heard...