Word: caps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year, but their claim has not been absolute by any means. Professors, denizens of Radcliffe, and the whole populace of Cambridge-beyond-the-walls have made free with the walks as though they were public thorough-fares, and underclassmen have felt perfectly at home there. But tonight the cap and gown will be the only recognized uniform, and for once the Senior will be monarch of all he surveys...
...while many others are missing from the ranks. Once out of the Freshman Dormitories, it has had little to draw it together, and the forces of disintegration are strong. Seniors who thought themselves widely acquainted have been surprised, since May first, at the number of strangers who wear the cap and gown. It is not until Commencement Week, to be sure, that the Senior is supposed to "have his day"; but Commencement Week will be disrupted by visitors, and there will be no chance then for making or renewing acquaintances. The gathering tonight is a preliminary which will...
Next in the air but on a bed of sickness Major Thomas Scott Baldwin died in Buffalo at the age of 69. Long associated with aeronautics, " Cap " Baldwin was the originator of the parachute and was the first man to dare descend in one-in San Francisco in 1885. For many years he flew and manufactured balloons, dirigibles and planes. In 1893 he operated at the World's Fair in Chicago the first balloons owned by the United States Army. During the war he was Chief of the Army Balloon Inspection Service...
...speech before the United Cloth Hat and Cap Workers of America he rang a general alarm against men of "William Z. Foster's type" and their efforts to " bore from within " the Federation by means of " internal cliques" such as the Trade Union Educational League. "If these men had all the gold of the capitalist class in their pockets they could not better serve the capitalists to the detriment of the working man than by doing just what they are doing," said Mr. Gompers...
...suffered in the game with Dean Academy last Monday. Fitton has not yet recovered from the blow he received on the mouth from a ball that bounced poorly for him, and Hoffman's knee has stiffened as the result of a foul tip which struck him on the knee-cap. Gardner, who has substituted several times already this year, will start at third, and Chipman will be behind...