Word: caps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...traditionary cap and gown are worn at Columbia commencement exercises...
...Arbor seniors have adopted a class hat for the coming season. The Chronicle says of it: "It partakes both of the nature of a hat and a cap, is of blue material, with a gorgeous maize tassel. It has a very feudal look about it, and reminds us much of the head-coverings worn by cardinals in the middle ages. It suits its purpose, however, excellently, and is decidedly original in every respect...
...been darkly hinted that 'bull-dogs' are corruptible by gold, and even silver." But more curious than either proctors or "bull-dogs" are the university spies or night police, who vigilantly watch and report to the proctors all escapades they discover. Fines are inflicted for not wearing the cap and gown, for smoking, playing billiards after nine o'clock, and finally, says the Graphic, "the driving of tandem is the eighth deadly sin." So our friends at Oberlin can console themselves with the knowledge that their college is not the exclusive home of blue laws; Oxford presses them close...
...reports be true, it is high time that college students everywhere should take the matter of hazing into their own hands, and decree a decisive and final ending to what is becoming a monstrous abase and disgrace to intelligent men. This last outbreak would seem to cap the climax of the monument of foolishness that has been heaped up so industriously this year at various colleges. Community of interest and patriotic feelings no longer demand that these actions should be palliated and excused by their fellows; rather that decisive action should be taken against a longer continuance of this epidemic...
...Cutting in all its Branches," a justification from the papers of the Polyglot Club, once a famous institution of the college: "We cut our teeth in the cradle-cut our fingers and capers while children-cut a figure in our teens-and, at last, Atropos, with her black cap and Damascus scissors, cuts short the thread of our existence. Take almost any case that you choose, and you find cutting almost without exception the safest course." And so the changes are rung on "cuts" for a full page more...