Word: blue
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upon instructors and students, I have heard little or nothing. Is it not at least an open question whether the good done the student's style by writing half a dozen themes and a few forensics is not more than out-weighed by the harm done in scribbling twenty blue books a year? For my part, I strongly suspect that to write the blue books of a college course would have ruined the style of Addison and made Dr. Johnson unreadable...