Word: blueness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...series of papers, in order that, at the close of this distressing period of the college year, we may assure ourselves that our readers will peruse something each day which by strictly impartial glorification of the college and its color will restore them from their present unwonted condition of blueness to their usual cheerfulnes...
...many a gloomy field of war! Blue! the flaunting color of the base cravens who train and practise their fiendish arts at New Haven. Small wonder, say I, that so many yearly go down under the terrible ordeal of examination, with such heavy odds against them. Appalled by blueness as they commence their work, always surrounded by it, an odor and a tint of blueness in the air, must not the crimson, thus assailed, inevitably yield its own, blush a deeper crimson for very shame at such surroundings...
...soon became aware that that radiant duad of blueness was looking in my direction. In short, our eyes met; they looked at each other; no - not exactly at each other; that would have been improper. They looked at a sort of middle point lying half-way on the straight line between them, the focal point where their visual rays converged. This of course was very harmless. Pretty soon they smiled, both pairs at the same time; but not at each other, only at the focal point. This certainly was unobjectionable. Unobjectionable? It was more; it was delightful...