Word: caps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Acta Columbiana has been consolidated with the Columbia Spectator under the latter's name. The Acta was first published as the Cap and Gown...
...chair in which he sat was made of oak, in exact imitation of the bronze chair of the original, and like the original, the simulated Harvard was wreathed with ivy and held and open book in his lap. The butcher had a long white apron upon him, a square cap on his head, and stood upright at one corner of the dray leaning on an immense meat-axe. The grocer-parent sported a leather apron and sat upon a barrel of spices on an opposite corner, while the cooper, dressed in small clothes and a buff jerkin, was hammering upon...
...thronged, as usual on the first Monday evening, with students in their most ragged attire and with spectators. But erelong the sound of a drum was heard, and soon a procession appeared, at the head of which was a drum-major or grand marshal with a huge bearskin cap and baton, accompanied by assistants with craped staff and torches, and followed by two bass-drummers (students beating muffled drums); the elegist or chaplain, with his Oxford cap and black gown, and brows and cheeks crocked so as to appear as if wearing huge goggles; four spade-bearers; six pall bearers...
When a student enters a corps, all that he does is to pay his fee and buy his cap. When he pays his fee, however, he takes upon himself a great many tasks; he is obliged to be a regular servant of the other students who are higher in rank than himself, taking care that they are provided with the most comfortable chairs in a "Kneip," and other things of this kind, and, besides, he is obliged to fight duels. He has a certain time given him, I think from two to four months, in which to take lessons...
BICYCLE CLUB. - There will be a run to the Middlesex Fells, Friday, Oct. 30, starting from University at 2 p. m. The club has adopted a regular cap, and any member can have one ordered for him by leaving the size of his hat at 4 Thayer...