Word: coloration
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...addition to these gifts the Museum has acquired by purchase a water color drawing, "The Matterhorn", by John Ruskins; and a head pencil drawing, "Edinburgh", by J. M. W. Turner...
From Charles A. Walker, a portrait by Raeburn, and a water color, "Interior of a Cathedral" by Bosboom...
...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...
...care" attitude of the citizen who has never bothered to learn the national anthem, who looks on the flag merely as a holiday banner. Last Saturday the men in the Boston crowds who uncovered as the colors passed were exceptional. Hardly a voice was raised in protest against the hundreds who did not. Stupidly good-natured and lackadasical, they were there to see the glitter and color, to hear the bands play, and, quite naturally, to stare at Marshal Joffre. And in the midst of all the spirit of celebration, to the thousands who lined the streets the flag seemed...