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...large reception room for ladies, occupying the greater part of the first floor. The floor of this room is of Georgia pine, and the doors and other finishings are of cypress. The walls are of rough plaster, painted a dark green, with a broad frieze in a lighter tint. The ceiling is supported by two large beams, which run cross wise and give a substantial appearance to the entire room...
...finch - for it is one of the finch family - is about the size of a Robin but of stouter build, with short neck. a round head and thick strong bill. The colors vary with age and sex. In immaturity the prevailing tints are yellowish brown, or bronze as it as often termed, and ash or slate gray. Mature females are of a rich yellowish bronze and ash while old males wear a rosy tint which sometimes changes to deep carmin, on head, rump and breast...
...annual junior promenade at Yale takes place tonight in the Second Regiment ARmory. Costa, of New York, who decorated the Metropolitan Opera House for the Centennial Ball, has charge of the decorating. The rafters and iron work in the roof will be covered with cloth of a cream tint stretched from the top of the ceiling down to the supports on the side walls, giving an arch or tent like effect. The side walls will be covered with bunting with Yale banners interspersed. The galleries will also be hung with bunting and flags. The design of the invitations...
...cross bar of the H, playing a banjo. Another improvement which lightens the appearance of the page, has been made by printing all the reading matter and most of the pictures without ruled lines, either on the borders or to divide the columns. Then, too, paper of a lighter tint is used. In considering that besides these reforms in mere printing, the editors have given us a very interesting and witty number, we have every reason to believe in the fulfillment of our wish that the Lampoon may have long life, and throughout it prosperity...
...button-hole of each man; the Yale men as of old, wore light blue; the Harvard men, pale pink, crimson having been discarded long before as being too loud. The ball used was perfectly round, about half the size of a Rugby, and covered with velvet of delicate tint...