Word: blue
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game was played on the main floor of the Gymnasium, twenty-four men taking part, twelve on each side. To distinguish one another the men on one side wore blue handkerchiefs on their heads while the men on the other side wore red handkerchiefs. As in lacrosse, every man on one side must cover his man on the opposite side. There is an excellent chance for team work. The game combines in itself the main features of basket-ball with the good parts of lacrosse and football...
Today is the last day that men can sign the blue-book at Leavitt & Peirce's for tickets to the Junior Dinner which takes place on Thursday. All juniors who have not signed are urged to do so at once...
...junior dinner is to be a thorough success this year, today must add many names to the meagre list already in the blue-book. Ninety-six's response to the appeals of the committee who have charge of the dinner, has been far too half-hearted. The class should not be contented with only a fair attendance at the big social event of its junior year. Fortunately it is not yet too late to make up for the lack of enthusiasm which has so far been shown. In former years the blue-book list has swelled rapidly on the last...
...committee again urge all men to sign the blue-book as soon as possible, and not wait till the last moment...
...until this area was thickly settled. The unity of interests, brought about by this close association of the colonies, made possible a successful revolution against the mother-country. As the pressure increased within this narrow strip of land, emigration pushed out through the passes of the Appalachians. The Kentucky Blue Grass country was then developed and as the tide flowed across the Mississippi, the great prairies of the west were taken up, until the Bad Lands at the base of the Rocky Mountains checked the emigrants. At this point, the difficulty of advance was so great that it was easier...