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...tender eyes grow red with tears...
...exceeded in interest even by the colored prints that adorn so many of our college rooms. The "meet" took place within the grounds of a gentleman's place, and nothing could be more picturesque than the sight of the large pack of hounds, and the "whip" in his red coat and top-boots riding around them, calling them all by name. By degrees the different gentlemen and ladies arrived, and before long one who had formerly been the master of the hounds, - a fine-looking old gentleman with snow-white hair and whiskers and ruddy cheeks. The "whip" sounded...
...University Crew appeared last summer with one shade of crimson and the Eleven with another; while at Saratoga colors which were worn by the students and their friends, and called crimson, embraced all the different shades of red from bright scarlet to maroon. This diversity of shades was remarked by every one, and in consequence the universal and unanswerable cry was, "What is the true color of Harvard?" After this question had been inflicted upon us a few hundred times we began to look with admiration upon the peculiar advantages derived from a change of magenta to crimson...
...Harvard students have rejected magenta and selected red and blue as the Harvard colors, so that Union can now have magenta to herself...
...steamer is almost an education in itself; one sees on board representatives of every race and almost of every country. The crew were Indians shipped at Bombay; they did not understand a word of English, except the commands on board ship. Their turbans were bound to their heads with red sashes, and they presented a very picturesque appearance as they hauled in on the ropes, keeping time with a peculiar melody of their own. Their helmsmen were Manilla men, and the ship's carpenters, etc., Chinamen...