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Word: blushing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conduct of the majority of the Harvard team was such as to bring the blush of shame to the face of any college man who believes in an honorable competition in athletic contests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/6/1888 | See Source »

...arrangement both of prose and verse all go to make up a very attractive-looking paper. Old Mother Advocate stepping out of her ancient crinoline and poke bonnet, and arraying herself in the garments which modern fashion demands, presents a very pretty and graceful picture, and she need not blush at it either. She has our sincerest congratulations, applause and good wishes on this, her first appearance under the able management...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/29/1888 | See Source »

...held in view in this instance. It is not often, and we are most thankful therefor, that the employment of such low means comes to light in college affairs. The controversy at first was honorable but it degenerated into a species of party politics which would bring the blush to the face of many political managers in this country. The CRIMSON has been impartial in its course, allowing a full discussion through its communication column, but now we are compelled to announce that the subject is closed as far as we are concerned. We would advise those who have brought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/2/1887 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - It is not only the blush of indignation but the blush of shame that should come to our faces, when, looking over the register in the college library, we see boldly written upon its pages, without the slightest attempt at imitation, the ostensible signature of a celebrity, who has not visited Harvard College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 4/22/1887 | See Source »

...this be the work of a visitor to our university, we blush with indignation at his imprudent and unscrupulous liberty; if it be the work of a student, which we sincerely trust it is not, we blush with shame to think that one of our number can be guilty of an act so small, so utterly beneath contempt, and, worse than all, so morally wrong. The writer of the signature may have thought that he was perpetrating a huge joke in thus attempting to deceive whoever might look over the register; but a short residence among us would soon teach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 4/22/1887 | See Source »

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