Word: violet
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...three hundred and twenty-five Yale men examined by Dr. Jeffries, only five were found to be color-blind. Two of these were violet blind, a very rare form of color-blindness...
...most ambitious poetical effort we have met with this week, is an ode to the "Concord River," in the Tuftonian. The general effect is good, though marred somewhat by bad epithets and one or two unnecessary inversions. We would like to know what color a "blushing violet" is, and it seems as if the wrong deity had the adjective in the line...
...violet chaste...
...Galaxy for November is an excellent number of the magazine. It contains a continuation of "Madcap Violet," Essays by Richard White Grant, T. M. Coan, Albert Rhodes, and others. The story of "Miss Ruth" is almost, without exception, the best of its kind that we have read for years...
...vient! qui vient! le Caporal Violet...