Word: blues
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BIJOU THEATRE.-"Blue Beard." Performance...
BIJOU THEATRE.-"Blue Beard." Performance...
...another course for which they are equally well fitted, even then the instructor could not be expected to condition half his men. There seems to be no way to avoid this evil so long as in each course the work is laid out, the examinations set, and the blue-books corrected all by the individual instructor. This inequality in our marking system has frequently been attacked. The attack ought not to cease until the inequality has been remedied by the establishment of an examination board which shall have no dealings with the individual instructor other than to prescribe how much...
After a desperate struggle of ten innings, Yale defeated Dartmouth, 12 to 11, not on their merits, but by a Yaleism as discourteous as it was unusual. At the end of the fifth inning, with a score of 10 to 2 against Yale, and the nine looking rather blue, the crowd realized that they were being outplayed in the field, at the bat and in base running, and saw that their only hope lay in getting Dartmouth rattled. This, headed by oarsmen, foot ball players and others, they succeeded in doing by bombarding the visitors at every move with...
...amass a great fortune. Others are sure they are born to stir the world. Others, still, have the spirit of a Swift, who only labored to distinguish himself that he might be used "like a lord," and that the "reputation of great learning might do the work of a blue ribbon and a coach-and-six." Numbers, too, like Charles Lamb, are carried away with the idea that a life of leisure is the great object to be sought after...