Word: blues
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trays numbered 38 and 25 at the examination on Monday, are requested to send their name to Mr. Huntington, as they failed to put them on their blue books...
Voted, that it be recommended, that the freshmen who shall be admitted into the University the present year before the end of the summer vacation, be provided with coats of blue gray, being a mixture of deep blue and white wool, as nearly as may be, seven eighths of the blue, and one eighth of the white, or, if that cannot conveniently be obtained, of a dark blue colour, -and with waist-coats and breeches of the same colour...
...careful and diligent search has failed to reveal to us any signs that such a society as the Hockey Club has an existence among us. Can it be that the approach of the midyears causes the enthusiasm of the officers to ooze away before the greater enthusiasm which a blue book can provoke? Can it be that this youthful club, hardly accustomed to the light of day, has already proved so demoralizing to our characters and dangerous to our safety that it has been suppressed? If, however, these suppositions are all incorrect, what then has become of the Hockey Club...
Students are again reminded that blue books, if not already handed in, are due in all courses...
There is undoubtedly something repugnant in a blue book, the mere sight of one is apt to excite our animosities; they have an effect upon us something akin to that produced by a Yale-Harvard foot ball match-they dampen our ardor. However, like many another thing here at Harvard, they are a necessity, and we have no choice but to support the book stores at this period of the year by a liberal patronage in blue books. Someone is made happy, at any rate. Let us not be so selfish as to want to take away this pleasure...