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...color of the Law-School crew is light blue, that of the '79 crew is white...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

...exhibition of water-colors and drawings which is now open at 2 Thayer reflects great credit on the Art Club, which has opened to the public the valuable collection of works of art made by Mr. Moore during his recent residence in Europe. It is very unsatisfactory, and we may add unprofitable, for the art student to be obliged to study the works of masters through the medium of photographs. No conception of color and only an imperfect conception of form can be derived by this means. Mr. Moore has fully appreciated this fact, and with the purpose of educating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...Harvard Index," containing the usual matter of previous copies, with a few novel features, however, will be ready about the 15th. It will have two styles of binding, one similar to that of last year, the other in leatherette of crimson color...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/6/1878 | See Source »

...gulled by these impostors, and never think of putting them to a test. They are caught, however, in their own nets sometimes. The story is an old one, but nevertheless true, that in a certain Greek elective the instructor asked his pupils the color of the lions in Greece. One well-informed man said they were tawny, another maintained that they were black, and a third asserted with confidence that they were brown. "None of you are right," said the instructor. "There are no lions in Greece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WELL-INFORMED MAN. | 10/25/1878 | See Source »

CHEMISTRY, I believe, is one of the popular departments here. All my friends seem to have electives in it, including even Simpkins, who is studying mineralogy to improve his eyesight. Heaven knows there's need of improvement, for he is near-sighted, cross-eyed, and, according to Dr. Jeffries, color-blind. I don't elect Chemistry; in fact, I know so little about it that at the dinner-table, when the Freshman who has heard Cook's lectures asks me to "approximate the H2O," I stare stupidly at him, and cannot understand that he wishes me to pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHY I DON'T ELECT CHEMISTRY. | 4/19/1878 | See Source »

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