Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Found - Cuff and button. Owner can have same by applying to F. H. Leavitt, at Drury...
Found - Cuff and button. Owner can have same by applying to F. H. Leavitt, at Drury...
Found-Cuff and button. Owner can have same by applying to F. H. Leavitt, at Drury...
...suppose they never saw such a breach of the social etiquette before. I had the queerest kind of a Christmas present. What do you suppose it was? I doubt if you can guess it, so I'll tell you. It was a promotion, in the shape of a crystal button, to the fifth rank. How is that for high! There are nine ranks in all, so you see I am half way up the ladder...
...History of Middlesex County," by S. A. Drake, we learn, among other things, that "in 1786 a college uniform was prescribed for the students with particulars of form and color and a system of distinctions for classes by means of 'frogs' on the cuffs and around the button-holes. The wearing of this uniform was compulsory, and the regulation continued in force, without modifications, for a number of years." Some of the college rules may be of interest to undergraduates. For example: "No freshman shall wear his hat in the college yard, unless it rains, hails or snows, provided...