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Dates: during 1880-1889
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THAT fifteen thousand blue-books are annually consumed in the examinations of Harvard College is hardly an extravagant statement, and although the trouble and annoyance entailed by the blue-book system cannot be expressed in digits, it is none the less very great. Every one of these fifteen thousand books has to be bought by a student, carried to the recitation or a professor's room before a fixed date, looked over by the instructor, and arranged in proper alphabetical order in the examination-room. This certainly involves an amount of labor enormous in the aggregate, on the part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/3/1881 | See Source »

...attired in a light-blue dress coat, with frosted metal buttons, a white waistcoat and nankeen trousers, with patent leather shoes. He wore round his neck a variegated satin scarf, in the front of which was inserted a breastpin of conspicuous dimensions. Having descended the staircase with a quick step, he entered the apartment where his brother and a few friends were awaiting him. He shook hands cordially with all present, and on being asked how he had slept, answered, "Very well;" and to the further demand as to the state of his mind, he said, "Reasonably happy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAST HOURS OF A SINGLE GENTLEMAN. | 5/19/1881 | See Source »

LIKE summer skies her eyes of blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MISSION. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

SWEET eyes of blue, shine down beside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APART. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

...their blue calms of Paradise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APART. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

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