Word: blue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hospitality of a reception, he said, 'It has a very bleak appearance.' Of the magenta handkerchiefs bought for the crew in which he rowed, he said that, though they were the origin of Harvard crimson, the color was purely accidental; 'it might just as well have been blue.' Of a proposal to dispense with all grades for records of students' work, reporting nothing but 'passed' or 'failed' he said. 'I fear that it would subject our students to too great a strain on their higher motives.' Of a hot-tempered professor, he observed, 'You know, Mr. Briggs, that...
Today the coonskin of Dartmouth takes the place in the Stadium of the blue-grey ranks of the Army. The stiffness of ordered regimentation characteristic of the military gives way to the informal enthusiasm of a college released on one of its biggest holidays. One doesn't have to make an effort to welcome Dartmouth to the Yard; her students are not honored guests who are to be greeted with formality and assiduously introduced to Harvard. Two Colleges as close together as Harvard and Dartmouth don't need an introduction; and with customary Harvard indifference, formalities may be waved aside...
...complete list of the members of the committee is as follows: W. J. Kyle 3L, chairman; L. A. Blue 3L; L. R. Breslin, Jr. 3L; Dayton Denious 3L; R. S. Garson 2L; P. A. Gibson 2L; F. S. Glover, Jr. 3L; E. G. Griffin 3L; Isaac Koperlik 3L; C. T. Lane 3L; N. M. Newmark 2L; W. D. Oliver 3L; R. V. Pollard 3L; R. A. Rockhill 2L; L. A. Weissberger 3L; G. J. Wolf 3L; and I. B. Wyatt...
...Gray team, with their blue prints in hand, ran through the various Harvard plays, with the varsity teams on the defense. Coach Cannell is very skeptical about the ability of his team to stop such an attack, as they have not as yet met any team that uses such an assortment of passes as Harvard has been reported to have...
...staging does not lag behind the music in effectiveness. There are only three changes of scene, but the varying lights and groupings make all three powerful, especially the few minutes after the picnic, in a heavy, blue-green palmetto jungle, when the exile Crown meets his erst while woman Bess and keeps her until it is too late for her to return to Porgy...