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Word: colorism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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FROM the Yale Courant we learn that the University Nine are to have a new and gorgeous uniform. "The material is a Scotch cassimere of a light gray color, with blue trimmings. The shirt is to be open before, like a coat; the sleeves without cuffs, but trimmed with blue at the wrists. The "Y" is to be wrought in blue silk on the breast. Over this is to be worn a loose roundabout without trimmings. The belt is blue and wrought. Knee-breeches are to be discarded, and the breeches will reach to the ankles and button over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

...companions. They do not stop to ask whether their friend's conduct is not worthy rather of imitation and praise than of roughing; it is enough that he talks as they do not talk, or does things to them not "correct," or that his coat is of a different color and cut. If the application of the reforming influence could be restrained to cases needing just this mode of treatment, it would be well; but is this censorship of witty students always discriminating in the objects of its attack? It is the peculiarity in a man most open to laughable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OTHER SIDE. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

...foot, let it be expanded till it takes in the editors of all college papers everywhere. Even this will not be enough, we fear. No editor of any kind will be satisfied till he receives an invitation; so let it embrace all those of any race, color, or sex who can drive a quill. Then will the glory of the projectors be consummated. The distance to St. Louis is no objection. All would willingly travel twelve or fifteen hundred miles for such a treat, though the city is only about two hundred from the college proposing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

CHAMPION SQUIRT. "It provides, sir, that no one shall be denied the right of suffrage on account of previous race, color, or condition of servitude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 2/7/1873 | See Source »

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