Word: yellows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Brown and yellow have been proposed as the college colors of Lehigh...
...first thing which occupies the mind of a German student is a mania for dueling, and if he has plenty of money and the inclination, he joins a corps. These corps at Heidelberg are five in number, and are distinguished by white, green, yellow, blue and red caps. Those belonging to the first two must have at least 6,000 marks (about $1500) a year, and are generally of noble blood...
...thought that one of the first tasks of the freshman was to learn the names and uses of the various college buildings. From this communication, however, it seems that some of the undergraduates are not as yet thoroughly posted. To end the matter, then, we would remark that the yellow and white edifice on the northern side of Holmes Field is the college hospital, and we would add that the building is well fitted in every respect for the purposes for which it was built...
...West Boston Bridge, where the little fleet of tugs had already gathered. At half-past twelve the Wm.Sprague, with the referee, press representatives, and 'varsity crew and nine on board left the bridge and steamed up to the railroad bridge at Brookline, followed by the Elsie, flying the yellow and black pennant of the sophomores, the Mattie Sargent, aboard which the freshmen were assembled under their red and white colors, and the Curlew, upon which was a large party of undergraduates and ladies. Upon reaching the bridge the party whiled away the inevitable long interval between the time announced...
...last spark of life is extinct, the jaw has fallen, the eyes are glazed the limbs dangle listlessly abroad. What need of haste? It has plenty of time. It ventures out timidly toward the middle current. No one notices the livid face, floating like a mask upon the yellow Seine. Now it sinks and now it rises. Now the wavelets of the surface ripple around the protruded chin, and now the mud of the river bottom is washing about in the open mouth. Curious fishes touch their cold noses to it and then dart away. It rushes madly...