Word: blues
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...possess. The old trouble which has affected Yale very much in times gone by, that of getting "rattled," seems to have disappeared with most of the other faults. Harvard need never hope that the aspect of Holmes field on a June afternoon will be sufficient to demoralize completely every blue jersey that is seen on the diamond. The makeup of the nine will probably be somewhat as follows: Batteries, Stagg and Dann, and Dann and Sullivan; bases, Spencer, Kellogg and Cross; short-stop, Noyes; out-field, Brigham, Hunt and Shepard. Osborn, '88, may play first base...
FRANK H. SELLERS,For the Photo. Com.HARVARD SHOOTING CLUB. - March 4: Match A. - Ten Blue Rocks - 1st, Mead; 2d, Greene, Palmer and Clyde...
...plan to their fellows, who were unanimous in their approval. But as some of the upper-classmen took the matter in hand the freshmen yielded the field and the seniors and juniors started the new journal, which was called the "Harvardiana." The first number, of octavo size with a blue cover engraved with a picture of University Hall, appeared in 1835. The editors in their opening address offer a very remarkable array of talent: "The frank and high-spirited son of the South, the cool and indefatigable Northerner, the poet with tremulous nerves and flashing eye, the reserved and imperturbable...
...under the influence of sparkling Hock and iced Moselle that he did not know what he was talking about. And so we dismiss his words as unworthy of further comment, for we are sure that they did not voice the thoughts of all wearers of the "true" blue...
...agreed to bestow cups on their nine, emblematic of the victories won against Yale last year. This decision was very natural and very laudable; but aut pecunia aut nil and names with dollar signs affixed to them in a miserable blue-book are not money. Whereas over $100 have been subscribed for, the management has as yet heard the clink of but $60. We trust that we need simply mention this fact without enforcing its significance and the remedies for it by mighty arguments. The course to be pursued is too axiomatic in its plainness to admit of demonstration...