Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Thomas a Didymus had a black beard...
...Paul's at first adopted white, as an emblem of purity, and it was subsequently decided to add black, in token of mourning over the depraved state of college morals. So the result is a neat thing in checkered black and white, which has the additional value that those of the society who are members of the Chess Club can amuse themselves with a quiet game on hat ribbons during the sermon...
...Crew and the Nine, the various other organizations have held meetings and decided on their respective colors. The Echo Board, with their usual enterprise, were the first to assemble; and, amid hearty applause, it was decided that the ribbon should be of the subdued colors displayed on their shingle, - black, orange, and magenta, with the words "Harvard Echo" stamped in gilt letters on the front, - but on second thoughts it was feared that the "personal influence" of this decoration would be too great, and the idea was abandoned...
PERHAPS you saw him with me in the Yard last week, - a long, thin man dressed in black, with a capacious white felt hat resting soberly on his straight black hair, smooth face, and age anywhere from forty-five to sixty? No, you did n't see him? Well, he looked every inch (and he is some seventy-seven inches high) exactly what he is, the leading deacon of the Smithfield Centre Orthodox Church; one of the bluest of the blue, and a most unrelenting enemy of card-playing, horse-racing, dancing, and the theatre. I trembled...
...upper-class man became his guide and friend, or instructed him in a Senior's philosophy. The upper-class men, in fact, came and hazed him. They turned an empty water-pail upside down over his head, and smoked perique and green seal under it till he was nearly black in the face. They made him crawl under the table and bark like a dog (which he did very naturally, with a puppy-like whine that nearly killed the Sophomores with laughter). When they recovered, and allowed him to come out, he merely gazed at them with his beautiful china...