Word: cap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past three years the faculty must have been aware of the dangers of the traditional cap-burning, yet left the authority vested in Scarab, an undergraduate organization. When their own policy of letting the undergraduates manage this particular question was found to be a mistake, the undergraduates paid for it. The educational device of treating college men like mature men has so often been forgotten when questions of any importance arise, that the Amherst class of 1932 naturally thought that in this case the faculty had seen and were satisfied...
Travelers, in the know, who as a rule keep several years ahead of the Baedecker tourists and Raymond-Whitcomb enthusiasts have found Losinj. Trau (Petronius's Satyricon) Korcula. Hvar and Dubrovnik-Kupari in Jugoslavije as smart as Brioni and Cap Antibes and without, the sourness of the Lido...
...exhibition in Gallery XV of the Fogg Art Museum is a rare Rembrandt, "A Youth with a Black Cap and Long Curling Hair", which has been lent for a short period of exhibition by Sir Joseph Duveen, a well-known art connoisseur. The picture comes form the collection of Lord Leconfield, in Petworth, Sessex, and was exhibited in London, at the Royal Academy...
...late Dr. Wilhelm Bode, former Director of the Royal Gallery, in Berlin, described the painting in the following terms: "The subject of the picture is about sixteen. He is standing turned to the left and looking at the spectator, wearing a greenish black cloak, a cap of the same colour with a yellow band, and a limp pleated collar. His hair falls in curls over his shoulders, the full light coming almost from the front with a brown background, fairly light in tone...
...fervor of almamatermania which drove the 200 young men of Harvard to demolish a subway car is even loss desirable. We have many times discussed the merits of the green cap, the St. Pat's parade, and the big rush: but we have never had quite so insane a specimen of sophomorism at Wisconsin as Harvard's expedition into school spirit...