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Word: blue (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1880
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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY OF THE HARVARD NINE. | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

...must be remembered that much additional work is entailed in the preparation of work, that the marking system and the examination system as at present used require much extra labor, and that if the instructor has a taste for "one-hours" he may have five or six hundred blue books to examine every year. Some have more than this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COMMERCIAL POLICY. | 6/4/1880 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COMMERCIAL POLICY. | 6/4/1880 | See Source »

COLLEGE statistics from the Lasell Seminary at Auburndale: "Twenty-nine wine-colored dresses; twenty-two blue sacques...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWEET GIRL GRADUATES. | 6/4/1880 | See Source »

...BLUE, wistful eyes, and hair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ONE'S OWN. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

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