Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...plants to be seen is the Laceleaf plant (onvirandra fenestralis). It is an aquatic variety, the leaves being entirely under water. As the name suggests, the leaves of the plant are formed only of the network of veins, and the appearance of the delicate but firm outlines of the dark green tracery just beneath the surface of the water is odd and beautiful...
MILITARY BAND.- The band will meet at 9.15 a. m. on June 3 in Old Gymnasium. The uniforms will be white duck trousers, dark blue or black coat, and straw hats. A special car will carry the band to the starting point of the parade. This car will leave at exactly...
...uniforms of the Newton team, which had been sent by express, did not arrive in time for the game, and so after a long wait the men played in whatever suits they could borrow. Before the game was over it began to grow dark, and finally time was called in the middle of the eighth inning. This was on the whole fortunate for Harvard, for Newton had already scored three runs with two men out and was knocking the ball in every direction...
...buildings. It has long been a source of annoyance and inconvenience to visitors that they were obliged to ask some one whom they chanced to meet the name of this or that building. As to the history connected with the various buildings they have been left entirely in the dark. In fact the history has been all too little known by the students themselves. The tablets which are to be erected will effectually furnish the desired information. The Memorial Society is to be thanked and congratulated for the step it has taken...
...architecture which originated in Italy with the Lombards, said Mr. Cummings, and spread during the Dark Ages, and afterwards, over Europe, is neither the Asiatic, Byzantine, nor Roman; but combines features of them all. It is a style which lies between the Roman and the Gothic. Until 1820 it was variously termed; but that year a French architect named it Romanesque...