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Word: caps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...page Register for the current year which has just appeared is one more feather in the cap of the present Student Council. The earlier publication of the volume adds greatly to its usefulness without sacrificing anything of content or treatment. It is an attractive and interesting book and one that is invaluable for anyone who wishes to keep pace with student activities in the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINDS REGISTER ANOTHER FEATHER IN COUNCIL CAP | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...Paper Cap was stuck on the head of a fastidious Matthew Park by a singularly beautiful woman whom, until the moment when she so clownishly crowned him, he had taken for a civilized person. It was a cap of disenchantment. It symbolized for him all the crassness, the barbarity of a planet which he had long despised, which he thenceforward renounced. Months later, the beautiful woman forced herself upon him where he, scornful recluse, sojourned on his yacht, spied the symbol pinned to his cabin wall, called him "baffling?but a dear" for keeping it, kissed him. He thereupon ceased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elsie | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...appear less desirable. The supercomforts of the Freshman halls, added to the freedom of living for two years where one pleased, may have produced fastidious tastes. The gradual approach to senior's state may have worn away the thrill which, three years earlier, greeted the thought of issuing in cap and gown from tradition-riddled Hollis or Holworthy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1926! | 12/18/1924 | See Source »

...tasseled cap and flowing gown, Amherst inducted her 9th President, Dr. George Daniel Olds. Not until the June Commencement will such a great day come again to town. Calvin Coolidge, '95, onetime pupil of President Olds, was among the eminent absent; but the eminent present were many. In the procession, on the platform: President Lowell of Harvard; President Garfield of Williams (Amherst's "mother" college) ; Presidents Neilson of Smith, Woolley of Mount Holyoke, Lewis of Massachusetts Agricultural College (all neighbors of Amherst) ; Dean Bouton of the College of Arts and Pure Science, New York University; U. S. Attorney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Amherst | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

...Cap in order to be heard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANCIENT SCRIBE HAD JOURNALISTIC TOUCH | 11/22/1924 | See Source »

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