Word: blues
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...costume of the police squad is to consist of red hats, with visors about ten inches in length, blue coats "a lamode," white pantaloons, and last but not least, a billy about as large as a base ball bat. It is sincerely hoped that the vainglorious mucker will, by this display for once be vanquished...
...DAILY CRIMSON-I hope it is not too late to make a suggestion through your columns, in regard to the uniform of the drum corps. In the first place I think that whatever the uniform is, the prevailing color should be red, or crimson, the college color, rather than blue. It has always been the aim of the Harvard men in the torch light processions to make their dress as odd and striking as possible ; the class uniforms this year are no exception to this rule. Now a zouave uniform (the uniform which has been proposed for the drum corps...
...Lower Basin, near the Cambridge Bridge, at 10 A. M. Any canoe not present at that hour may be barred out. Unfortunately the starting point cannot yet be definitely made known. The final arrangements will be announced before 10 o'clock from the Commodore's canoe, which flies a blue flag with white paddles...
...torchlight uniform of the junior class is to consist of blue and white striped "swallow tailed" coats, with '86 on the back, in large letters; trousers of the same material; and black "stove pipes...
...held in Boylston last evening; was attended by about 100 men, who were called to order by President Barnes at 7.30. The class assembled for the purpose of making arrangements for the torchlight parade. It was voted that a distinctive class uniform should be selected. bearing the class colors, blue and white, but that the style of the uniform should be left to the discretion of a committee consisting of Messrs. Barnes, Merriam, Claflin, Winthrop. Snow, and Burnett. The class voted to wear the traditional black "stovepipe," and also, by a vote of 62 to 34, to carry a transparency...