Word: whites
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...members. This contribution would amount to $480. For $480 a window could be purchased, and that is all. It would be no great improvement on the ones already in the Hall. Indeed, about the only difference between it and them would consist in the substitution of colored for white glass. At this price comparatively cheap glass would have to be used, and consequently all those beautiful effects obtained from the rich tints in cathedral and antique glass would be lost, the brilliancy of the ornamentation destroyed, and instead of the window being "a thing of beauty and a joy forever...
...snow are its drapings white...
...HENRY WHITE BROUGHTON...
...thing to mar our joy. "How can we bear to leave you," O boxes, whence we issued forth on those eventful afternoons feeling ourselves able to win victory from whatsoever club might combat us, on whose doors are inscribed the beloved names of Bush, Wells, Eustis, Perrin, White, and others over whose memories we linger with feelings nearly akin to reverence? But our sadness departs when we remember that those doors will be preserved and inlaid on the frescoed walls of the future Jarvis Hall...
...FAIR presumption seems to exist that one will find in a college man a firm opponent of cant; if, at least, we mean by that term "the repetition of a creed after it has become a phrase by the cooling of that white-hot conviction which once made it both the light and warmth of the soul," as Mr. Lowell defines it. But however this may be in regard to religion and such indifferent matters, one cannot be so sure of a college man's hatred of cant when he comes face to face with something in regard to which...