Word: darker
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Iliad and represents the parting of Hector from Andromache and his son Astyanax. The windows are five feet wide and fifteen feet high, and are of colored glass, no paint being used except in the flesh tones. The artist has been restricted in his use of the darker shades by the necessity of admitting as much light as possible into the Hall. One window is filled by the armed figure of Hector, while the other is given up to Andromache and her son. The work has been done wholly under Mr. Crowninshield's personal direction...
...five million dollars to set it well upon its feet, and to make it the great university it is destined to be. But those millions are sure to come, as others have come, because these live men believe in that practical sense which vigorously abandons the methods of the darker ages and faces the future. The administration of President Eliot, when it is concluded, will stand as monument to commemorate this American genius for college building...
...Possible enough to see no meaning, to think of it all as a long dynasty of accidents, chance killing chance and taking possession of the vacant throne. If that is all, then nobody can guess at the future from the past. On into utter recklessness or back into a darker and severer superstition than any from which she has escaped. Either way this chance-governed, ungoverned world of ours may go. Possible to give it all a low meaning. Possible enough to see in it nothing but the casting of restraint after restraint, in order that at last all traces...
...means the custom for college clubs to deny admission to those whose color may be somewhat darker than their associates. Yale has several clubs to which colored persons belong, and to them no objection has ever been raised...
...night has grown darker with rain...