Word: blacke
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interesting as a matter of passing notice, though not worth much actually, that Harvard, having joined the infantry, now wears a hat cord of blue, the color once consecrated to defeat by Mahan and Brickley and the cause of our own undoing under Black. In like manner Yale, having joined the artillery, now wears a hat cord of red, whose tone was once the battle-sign to Yale. So are the heavens altered. Berkeley held that all color is illusion. And the Army has made...
...also interesting that the aspiration of both Yale and Harvard in hat cord color schemes is the black and gold, which is strongly reminiscent of Princeton's colors. That trinity of oriflammes which once made gaudy the air on November afternoons have now become more mixed than an Austrian nationality...
...Dead Man's Hill as civilians parade on Fifth Avenue. The familiar cloudblue, sand-brown, and leaf-green uniforms will be passe as are hoop skirts now. We may suppose an army clad in giraffe spots combatting victoriously at Potsdam, and taking time to change to ostrich-white and black before entering the capitol in triumph...
...Paul's Church, Richmond, Va. March 10--16: The Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham, D.D. March 17--23: The Rev. Albert Parker Fitch, D.D. March 24--30: Professor Edward Caldwell Moore, D.D. March 31--April 6: Professor George Alexander Johnston Ross, M.A., Union Theological Seminary. April 7--13: Professor Hugh Black, D.D., Union Theological Seminary. April 14--20: The Rev. John Edgar Park, A.B., minister of the Second Congregational Church, Newton. April 21--27: The Rev. William Wallace Fenn, D.D., Dean of the Harvard Divinity School. April 28--May 4: The Rev. Ambrose White Vernon...
...present arrangements, consist of drill, study talks, actual practice as non-commissioned officers, at least one hour each day of physical work, bayonet and setting-up exercises, individual instruction in the details of rifle shooting and the use of semaphore codes, topography, marches, trench warfare, lecture and black-board talks on the theory of military tactics...