Word: blue
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Distant far through heaven's eternal blue...
...Lowells, 3 to 1; Bostons, 7 to 6; Rhode Islands, 11 to o; and the Fall Rivers, 6 to 3. Only one game in the college series was a defeat, and that was the second with Yale, in which the score stood 6 to 7 in favor of the blue. The Nine, imitating the example of the champions of '70, took a trip after Commencement and went as far south as Philadelphia. Leeds led the batting this year, with a record of .503 for total base hits. Taken altogether, the results of the year were eminently satisfactory, and no Harvard...
...come. The long-expected, the widely advertised, the unparalleled circus has come, and we have seen it. There were those who sneered at the superlative adjectives on the large red and blue posters; there were others who refused to believe that any show could equal Barnum's; but they all now agree that the posters, far from exaggerating, did not half express the wealth of this circus, and that it beat Barnum...
...supposed that a man worth anything will come here at any price, to be tied down year after year to such machine-work as the shovelling of facts into the sieve-form minds of a hundred and fifty ordinary boys, and the examination of eight hundred or so blue books per annum...
COLLEGE statistics from the Lasell Seminary at Auburndale: "Twenty-nine wine-colored dresses; twenty-two blue sacques...