Word: caps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each Senior must wear the regulation uniform consisting of a cap and overalls, and must take along a pair of swimming tights. This outfit may be purchased any time today at the Cooperative Society...
...most correct English I heard during my short visit to the United States two years ago came from the mouth of a red-cap in Boston!" says St. John Ervine in a recent article in Vanity Fair; and almost simultaneously appears a letter in the Boston Herald scoring the use of a glaring split infinitive in the correspondence of the Associated Harvard Clubs. A passing observance on the signs of the times, and a joint argument for renewed activity on the part of the purists...
...practice of "English as she is spoke". Affectation can be carried to excess as well in the use of a language as in any other species of human thought and action; super-conceits are only ridiculous. But it does seem as though even leaving English. A and the "red-cap" out of the question the average person, be he litterateur, scientist of philosopher, should be willing both to listen and speak with some degree of care. More than that, he must do so if he is to succeed in his chosen field. Examples to strengthen this argument are unnecessary, surely...
...strictures, there was much wisdom behind its inauguration Mr. Gavit has had some very decisive things to say on the subject, "outsider" though he may incidentally, we must prove our rights to an education at Harvard if Harvard is to mean anything in the future, and when a "red-cap" shows us the way, he if only in a single instance, it is time to look to our laurel...
...list of the 41 Crimson men who will make the trip to Princeton. The squad will leave the South Station on the 1 o'clock train this afternoon and arriving in New York about 6, will go on at once to Princeton. It will be housed tonight at the Cap and Gown, the Ivy, and Cottage clubs. The meet will take place in the Palmer Stadium at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon...