Word: caps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...change in the uniform of the base ball nine is contemplated by the management. They propose to ask permission of the cricket club to allow them to adopt a cap similar in design, crimson and black stripes, to that worn by the cricketers ; but having the stripes a little narrower, and the cloth of flannel. In addition they will have crimson and black jackets of the same material, instead of the present sombre gray ones, which they have worn in past years, when waiting their turn at the bat, and at other times when engaged in the most active exercises...
...Perkins gave the orders to bring out the new shell. The boat which the crew rowed in is the new one lately received from Waters of Troy, and is a beauty. The men were the same as were published a few days ago. They wear this year a striped cap with a particularly broad vizor to protect their eyes from the glare of the sun. As the crew shoved off from the float the men on the platform, led by Mr. Sexton, hte treasurer of the boat club last year, gave nine hearty cheers. The eight rowed back and forth...
...farther goal, there is a small house devoted to dressing-rooms. Very few trees surround the grounds, and in consequence the light is good. The costumes of the players are picturesesque, each one wearing a crimson jersey with a large H on the front, and a small crimson "polo" cap. Yesterday the club was out in full force. At the beginning of the game there were six players present. Mr. Belmont, Mr. Dickey and Mr. Winthrop formed one side, and Mr. Appleton, Mr. French and Mr. Cowdin, the other. Play began at 4.20. After about twenty minutes Mr. Timmins joined...
...payment of a fine, graded according to the gravity of the offence, will admit the tardy student even after this late hour. This regulation and one forbidding students to walk up the river in the morning, and another forbidding students to walk on "The High" in study hours, without cap and gowns, are relics of the old system of police regulations which used to exist in all colleges and universities in olden times. These last two regulations are what we might call dead letters on the Oxford statute book; no observance is paid to them. These are good examples...
Lost-On Tuesday last, a blue and white fiannel cap. Finder will please leave it at 43 Matthews...