Word: blues
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lost.-A dark blue spring overcoat with velvet collar, made by Charles A. Smith. Finder will please leave it at 5 Holworthy...
...hats of the Harvard Bicycle Club can be ordered of D. P. Ilsley. The hats are dark blue, with a crimson "H" in front...
...recent meeting of the directors of the Bicycle Club it was determined to adopt a new club hat, which may now be procured at Ilsley's. The hat is made of dark blue serge, lined with soft leather, and will have a crimson "H" on the front. The price is $1.50, and it is earnestly desired that all the riding members should procure them as soon as possible. Too little attention is paid to uniform in the club, as it is; and where such a slight outlay on the part of each member will afford the club some distinctive mark...
...wearing the cap and gown, for smoking, playing billiards after nine o'clock, and finally, says the Graphic, "the driving of tandem is the eighth deadly sin." So our friends at Oberlin can console themselves with the knowledge that their college is not the exclusive home of blue laws; Oxford presses them close in the race-backwards...
...young men and women were invited and were sometimes allowed to read one of their own productions. At one time the great attraction was a certain scientific defender of Orthodoxy, whose quotations were apt to be as fabulous as his support of prohibition principles was stormy and inaccurate. The blue-eyed and vegetarian supporter of idealism would of times be present and gently insinuate that all these new ideas were to be found in Plato. Papers were read by the "big bugs" and discussed by the little ones, until in one winter Mrs. De Sorosis had done more to disseminate...