Word: blushing
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...must change its hue; the roses must reform; the Titian-locked must consult a dyer; the robin must buy a new vest; we must learn to blush a pea green. Color is being legislated out of existence...
...Auburn street on my way home to Paresis Smith Hall from Dr. Albert Parker Fitch's inspiring Bible class, when I heard sounds issuing from an odd building situated at the corner of Bow street, which led me to believe that the young men inside had been--I blush to say it--imbibing. I distinctly saw two young men--(I have reported their names to Mr. Tibbetts of the Christian Association)--engaged in drinking a yellow fluid which I knew intuitively to be beer. I was still more aghast to see that they made absolutely no attempt to conceal their...
...shame that Harvard, the oldest, the most cultured the most advanced of American universities should be without a recognized literary representative. As it is now, both papers claim to be "the" Harvard literary; as a result neither is truly representative. This matter of a literary organ may at first blush appear trivial, yet after a moment of thought it will be perceived that it is really of great importance. The literary organ of the College should express the noblest and finest and best that has been thought or felt in our community. Its service should be to stimulate and clarify...
...given by Harvard men to the subject of arbitration, and to compare this unfavorably with the great sympathy which is being aroused for the development of a new military and naval program. This newly-proposed scheme to infuse greater activity into our army and navy may seem, at first blush, inconsistent with our declared policy of seeking a peaceful solution of international differences. If we were to examine the two pellicles in a vacuum, it must be admitted that they would appear diametrically opposed. But, if we take them out of this purely artificial atmosphere, and examine them...
...spend more and ever more in chasing the will-o'-the-wisp of military efficiency, is indeed revolting. To read in the daily papers that one who raised his voice to protest against such shameful and absurd proceedings was hissed and hooted at by enthusiastic Harvard students, makes one blush for one's Alma Mater...