Word: blue
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...expense of sending a crew to England had been declined; several members of the old Eight had finally decided not to row again, and the challenge from Yale had been laid on the table until an organization of a crew could be effected. In a word, matters looked very "blue." Since then a change has taken place in the state of affairs. Mr. Bancroft and Mr. Crocker have consented to take their old seats in the boat, and Mr. Legate may possibly pull as number three. Last Monday afternoon a large and enthusiastic crowd of graduates and undergraduates...
...fathers thought they were anticipating the wishes of Columbia graduates and the people at large in offering the victors a public welcome on their return; but the language in which their preamble was couched was such a marked instance of "slopping over" that the most ardent sympathizers with the blue and white were disgusted. One of the three "whereases" will serve as a specimen...
...joyous news heralded from New Haven, and Harvard rejoiced to have gained a victory in the enemy's country, and repaid with interest the defeat received on the home-grounds. At least thirty-five hundred people were present to behold Yale's easy victory over Harvard, and the blue was everywhere conspicuous before the game...
...their rowing that they had not broken themselves of a bad habit of pausing, or "hanging" at the beginning of the stroke. For the next half-mile Harvard kept the same stroke; but at the end of the third quarter, when the crimson was four lengths ahead of the blue, they slackened to 34 strokes per minute, while Yale was rowing 32. At the beginning of the second mile Yale gained about a length on our crew by pulling 34 to the minute, but lost it before the end of that mile. The Harvard crew did not pull a faster...
...speaking of class suppers the Courant gives its readers this sage advice: "If you must go on a 'tear,' do it when the blue leads the crimson. If she does n't, then do it because she failed to do it. Drown your grief, if you can't celebrate a victory." We sincerely hope that the Yale men will have a chance to "drown their grief." The usual cut is poorly enough drawn, and the joke beneath it is still worse. It may be intelligible to the Yale mind, but we are obliged to confess that the point...