Word: scarlets
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...when the first university crew was organized, in 1856, that any color was worn. It then consisted of a scarlet band around the caps of the oarsmen. This was adopted also the following year ; but the university crew of '58 decided to wear handkerchiefs, instead of caps, and, after considerable discussion, chose blue for their color. The Beacon Cup race was soon to come off, and one of the crew, failing to find handkerchiefs of the desired color, purchased six Chinese silk handkerchiefs instead, which were nearly crimson. This continued to be the color for several years...
...Wesleyan College of Vermont is closed on account of an outbreak of scarlet fever among the students...
...Madison square, and was headed by a transparency by which the class expressed the undergraduate position on a much debated subject-co-education. To give an illustration of the practical working of this system, four students were clad in female attire. "One wore a fashionable poke bonnet and a scarlet dress with puffed sleeves, and smoked a very long and strong cigar; another was attired in modest white, wore a coquettish flat straw hat with blue ribbons, and talked in a deep bass voice; the third was clothed in the sober garb of a middle-aged matron, but had refused...
...Scarlet fever prevails at Oxford, and complaint is made because there is no college hospital...
...window is a passionate reflection. A large band of negro servitors keep the building in order, and wait upon the tables at meal-time. They go cheerfully about their work, whistling and humming their own soft melodies. One wonders if they are conscious of the significance of the scarlet stain which at noontide the sunlight casts across the floor at their feet from the memorial window...