Word: blues
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much surprised, however, when he is informed that the beautiful display of crimson letters and figures is not a mark of distinction, but a badge of 'varsity. The slender figure proudly bearing the talismanic figure '89 is not that of a champion of eighty-nine's contests against the blue, but is simply that of - a freshman. We might even invade the sacred precincts of eighty-eight and comment upon the delicate design of some of the illegitimate devices there worn, but we refrain. We ardently hope that "The Harvard Furnishing Store" will, in the future, exercise a little more...
...seventy-five. Again, a mark of sixty in one course represents work that would receive eighty-five or ninety in another course. Marks, in the third place, represent, at Harvard, work done only in the examination room. A student who has crammed and tutored will unload himself in a blue book and before the returns are in, forgets his knowledge of the whole subject, and yet he receives a mark of eighty, while the steady going student who works from day to day, and whose knowledge is lasting, is rated by the instructor as inferior to the student described above...
...there will be an examination in German 1 for both sections in Sever 35 at 1.20 o'clock. Blue books and the Braune Erica should be brought to the examination...
...Yale Courant prophesies victory for the blue in the foot-ball contest this fall. The Yale News, however, admits, in regard to foot-ball, that "the situation is desperate...
...each other in truly fraternal manner, waiting for the only victorious Yale team of 1885 to appear. A shout, then a roar, from the unwashed announce their appearance; down the long street in silence and precision the class of '88 marches with the proud team in advance and with blue banners flapping triumphantly to the breeze...