Word: blues
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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...
...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...
LIKE summer skies her eyes of blue...
SWEET eyes of blue, shine down beside...
...their blue calms of Paradise...