Word: shields
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...student is to be compelled to do so; only, any one who does not wear the college costume will not be regarded as a student. The regulation coat consists of red serge, cut in long-tailed frock pattern, and having on the back, in large gold lines, the inevitable shield of the University, with "In Vino Veritas" plainly stamped thereupon. The waistcoat is of white flannel, buttoning behind, without watch-pockets. A narrow yellow braid will run around the collar, - yellow being emblematical of humility...
...stained-glass windows given by the class of 1857 are now being put up in Memorial. On one is Epaminondas, and underneath, the Spartan mother giving the shield to her son. On the other is Sir Philip Sidney, and beneath, the scene at the battle of Zutphen, where that knight gives the wounded soldier his own cup of water...
...north end will differ from the south end in having but one triplet window instead of three. Immediately above it will be the largest panel in the building, made of carved brick, with a central piece containing the College coat-of-arms, which consists of a right-angled barred shield, bearing three open books and the motto "Veritas" on the face. The roof of the building will be plain, broken only by dormer windows, two on each side, and one at each end, with but a slight projection. These windows are all quadruple, four in each group. Two large chimneys...
...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...
...hope that I do not show an excess of modesty in thus endeavoring to shield my fellow-students from the popular gaze during their meals. But matters seem to have been growing more and more complicated in the gallery since visitors were admitted there, and now the question...