Word: blue
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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SOFTLY the blue waves murmured a song...
...look in your deep blue...
...able book on Reading, says: "It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read." Not better than the books they read? Great Heavens! Do you not tremble for our instructors? Are they to descend at last to the level of the blue book? Are they to be no better than that "wretched heap and hotch-potch of words and ideas"? Alas! what a horrible destiny! But ought they not to be rescued? Ought not the system to be abolished, and our instructors saved? A few more years of this diet of so many...
...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...