Word: blues
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last lecture there was a little blue-book circulating in the History 13 section, containing a petition for a list of general readings. The writer of this article put his name down on account of sheer laziness, he admits, but he saw other names that were irreproachable - names of men concerning whom "'88" would hesitate a long while before advancing his accusation of "laziness...
...apparent dearth of news at New Haven, but feel assured that the near approach of the annual foot-ball quarrel will relieve the anxious editors. So far as our advice to the freshman eleven is concerned, any comment from Yale will be gladly received, as the wearers of the blue have ever shown themselves so highly gentlemanly, so thoroughly manly in their support of their athletic teams that Yalensian support has become a proverbial expression of victory...
...into schools composed of young men who have in the past shown a wise depreciation of it, some comment and even criticism, ought to be made. We fear that worn-out shells and the opportunity of receiving "odds" will prove inducement enough to some young men to don the blue, but we sincerely trust that if unbecoming proselyting is to be done, it may be done by no more questionable means than by that modern blade of Mohammed, - the blade...
...uniforms for the Yale football team consist of white sweaters with an old English Y on the breast, brown canvas Jackets, mouse-colored fustian pants, blue stockings and long caps...
LUDICROUS FEATURE.A large blue rag doll bearing a transparency "Yale A. A. I can't run but I can talk," was pushed along behind the cup in a perambulator by a small gamin in the Wesleyan colors. And a small train of "muckers" bound to the first with a rope and clad respectively in the colors of Columbia, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and Lafayette, followed like captives behind a triumphal car. This was greeted with boundless enthusiasm along the whole route...