Word: green
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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March 15. Professor C. L. Goodale, "Green Leaves and their Work." Illustrated by diagrams...
...undergraduates, are the children who sport with merry gambols on the green. And that thing, once frail but now a huge monster which may at any moment devour us all, is the hour-examination system. We all remember the first adoption of this system; how innocent the idea seemed when first presented to us, with what care it was nursed into stronger life. Did we not honor and bow down before it, and look to it for unnumbered blessings? Then it was a small and tender thing, but now it has grown, - ye gods, how it has grown! The plan...
...acts you meet Jones, who says that he comes in every night, and then hurries off in a mysterious way. Little Thompson, who thinks that Jones is the English for God, comes up in a minute, and tells you how Jones wrote a letter to the little priestess in green, Miss Rosalie Montague; and how Miss Rosalie answered the letter, and dined with Jones the next evening; and how Jones has sent her a beautiful bracelet; and how he (Thompson) lent Jones the money to buy the bracelet with; and so on, ad infinitum. You laugh at Thompson's remarks...
...proposed to change the college color, which is at present green...
...clubs have had in getting good men to join the crews. By special agreement between the captains, the four-oars were made the first crews, an arrangement particularly advantageous in the fall, as it enables the captains to choose their men quicker, and obviates the necessity of taking green hands on to the first crews...