Word: seal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Tuesday evening, it was decided to get caps, probably gray, with a crimson and blue monogram of the letters H. B. C. on the front, and a crimson rim or circle on the top; a ribbon, probably dark blue, with diagonal crimson stripes, and a seal for the shingle. The room in the basement of Little's Block is now ready to receive bicycles...
Taking these facts into consideration, we suggest that the Corporation and Fellows of Harvard College apply for a patent on the word "Harvard," to secure them its use and possession as a private sign, seal, or trade-mark. This would effectually stop the current use of the word in advertisements, though it might seriously interfere with certain organizations in college. The Harvard Advocate and the Harvard Lampoon would probably be obliged to give bonds that they would always represent the sentiments of the Corporation, but this they would willingly do for the sake of the prestige. The powers that...
...time when the Freshman is deceived by the bogus summons. Last year they had the college seal in the corner, and purported to come from the office. Look out for them...
WITHOUT wishing to revive the discussion as to what the seal of Harvard College should be, we desire to point out an abuse which has lately been made of it. The publisher of "Harvard and its Surroundings" has been so much encouraged by the merited success of his labors, that he has perhaps got to considering the book as a sort of official publication. At any rate, he has used the College Seal on all his advertisements. We have strong doubts whether he does so by permission of the Faculty; as even the respectable Advocate's request to be allowed...
...readers of the Crimson may be interested in two sonnets on the seal of Harvard College, by Dr. Holmes, which were read at the Harvard Club dinner in New York. In an explanatory note, Dr. Holmes tells us that the original seal of the College was "a shield, with three open books, bearing the word Veritas." This motto was afterwards changed, probably during the presidency of Increase Mather, a strong Congregationalist, to "Christo et Ecclesiae." The object of the sonnets is best shown by their author's own remarks...