Chapter Blue Flag to Boating Colours of B by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Boar of Ardennes (The Wild), in French Le Sanglier des Ardennes, was Guillaume comte de la Marck, so called because he was as fierce as the wild boar he delighted to hunt. The character is introduced by sir W. Scott in Quentin Durward, under the name of “William count of la Marck.”

Boar’s Head (The). This tavern, immortalized by Shakespeare, stood in Eastcheap (London), on the site of the present statue of William IV. It was the cognizance of the Gordons, who adopted it because one of their progenitors slew, in the forest of Huntley, a wild boar, the terror of all the Merse (1093).

Boating Colours. College Clubs: Cambridge: Caius, black and light blue; St. Catherine’s, claret and yellow; Christ’s, blue and white; Clare, black and gold; Corpus, white and cherry; Downing, magenta and black; Emmanuel, cherry and blue; Fitzwilliam Hall, red and green; Jesus, red and black; King’s, purple and white; Lady Margaret (St. John’s), scarlet and white; Magdalene, French grey and indigo; Pembroke, dark blue and light blue; Peterhouse, blue and white; Queens’, green and white; Sidney Sussex, blue and magenta; 1st Selwyn, red and gold; 1st Trinity, dark blue; 3rd Trinity, dark blue and white; Trinity Hall, black and white.

Oxford: Balliol, red and white; Brasenose, black and yellow; Christ Church, dark blue and white; Corpus Christi, blue and red; Exeter, magenta and black; Hertford, red and white; Jesus, green and white; Keble, red, white, and blue; Lincoln, dark and light blue; Magdalen, scarlet; Merton, blue and magenta; New College, violet and orange; Oriel, white and dark blue; Pembroke, cerise, white, and dark blue; Queen’s, blue and white, three red eagles on breast pocket; St. John’s, blue and white; Trinity, blue and white; University, dark blue and yellow; Wadham, light blue; Worcester, black, pink, and white; St. Catherine’s (unattached students), French grey and magenta.