Word: blues
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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These passed on before the "Washington Corps" - about a dozen men in blue swallow-tail coats and white small-clothes, and hose. They were supposed to represent a student organization of that name existing here in the early part of this century...
...Junior Class held next place in the parade. Their costume was the most effective of the class uniforms: a red coat with blue facings, buff vest crossed by a blue belt, buff knee-breeches and black hose, and a black and buff cocked...
...Fathers turned blue pale...
...Commencement Day Police, in blue, with false beards, clubs and plug hats, made a brief sensation. They were an honorary body existing at the early part of this century...
...freshman class, almost complete, enthusiastic and - fresh, - now made itself seen and heard. Its costume was the blue regimentals of a soldier of '61, and a rather effective uniform in the mass. A transparency at the head of the parade gave a cartoon of the "lone Indian freshman," of 1636," and on the other side, the fierce declaration - "Here we are, '90. Look out!" coupled with the calm assertion that "90 is the brightest class in many a year." A bulletin signed "C. J.," another proof of the extreme subtlety of freshman wit, warned all students from entering the yard...