Word: blushing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...eager embracing of the noble opportunities of the University, and activity of mind commensurate with the worth of the instruction. I think we might produce on occasion scholars in the various departments of study, as mathematics, history, chemistry, and philosophy, with possibly the exception of classics, who would not blush before the elect of any College in the land...
...Blush bright before his searching...
...there is one of a certain student who, when asked, in a recitation, what a legal holiday was, replied that he did not know, for he never had anything to do with one. This story, though told as a joke, has a significance which may well cause us to blush for the narrow spirit which prevails in the government of our College...
...Blush in those cheeks, whose roses have fled...
Nearer, then a blush would rise...