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...risks." I was roused from my stupor by silent attendant's shaking me, and pointing to a door. Tried to go through the door, but backed out instantly. After another effort, succeeded, and found myself again in a chair; thermometer here was 30 higher, - 160 in the shade...
...like a detected eavesdropper - stares out of its ghastly frame. But it is not the same thoughtless little grisette, although at first you might pardonably mistake her for our old friend. She has the same fresh face and piquant way, she measures out yard after yard of the identical shade of crimson as her predecessor; she has her Magenta and Solferino, and now and then an April shower. If I ask her what she has read, she will break out laughing, - which speaks volumes. She never looks older, but every season, like a good standard novel, comes...
...year there was a movement set on foot to change magenta as Harvard's color and substitute crimson in its place; and one of the alleged reasons for making this change was, that Harvard had no fixed color in magenta, but that great confusion resulted from the diversity of shades. This movement succeeded, the color was changed to crimson, and a committee of three appointed to determine the shade. Up to the present time, we have patiently waited for the spirit to move these gentlemen to declare themselves, but as the prospect of ever hearing from them has been growing...
...University Crew appeared last summer with one shade of crimson and the Eleven with another; while at Saratoga colors which were worn by the students and their friends, and called crimson, embraced all the different shades of red from bright scarlet to maroon. This diversity of shades was remarked by every one, and in consequence the universal and unanswerable cry was, "What is the true color of Harvard?" After this question had been inflicted upon us a few hundred times we began to look with admiration upon the peculiar advantages derived from a change of magenta to crimson...
...attained in Boston alone. The present window was executed by the well-known firm of W. J. McPherson & Co., and is the first purely mosaic stained glass window ever erected in this country. By mosaic stained-glass window we mean one wherein all the effect of light and shade is obtained, not by the use of paint, but by the sole use of various colored glasses so disposed that the effect is similar to most elegant mosaic work...