Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...band and all the officers rigged out in full naval regalia. The members of the club who had received parts were compelled to resign amid the most ludicrous ceremonies, and the unfortunate (?) ones stood up one after the other and addressed the crowd, while a man concealed by a cloak sat behind each one and made the appropriate gestures for him. All who refused to resign were expelled by the Admiral amid the hoots and howls of his fellow tars. An annual cruise wound up the year's festivities and was generally sailed in a tug-boat down Massachusetts...
...enemy, nor ever was for an hour the object of ill will. And yet the boys had lots of innocent fun at the expense of "Betty," as they called him. The appearance of his smiling, boyish face and gray curls, and his slight figure draped in the inevitable cloak, in Chancellor Crosby's place at the chapel desk, was always the signal for an outburst of applause. While he was reading the morning lesson, the students marked every emphasized word with a universal and simultaneous stamp of the feet, and they applied the same realistic ictus to every accented syllable...
...Harvard was a clergyman educated at Cambridge and following the fortune of other clergymen, came to Massachusetts in the early period, he was probably a Puritan of their stamp, that is. not a dissenter. Puritan ministers of that day are represented in pictures as wearing a somewhat closely fitting cloak, covering a cassock, with a broad linen collar and a skull cap. No mistake could be made in regard to the garments covering the lower part of body...
...upon themselves to denounce in scathing terms this performance in particular, and the theatre in general. The Transcript thereupon expresses its surprise that such a proceeding could ever occur in a "University City." A "University City" is a delightfully elastic phrase, and might by this process be made the cloak of reproach for a multitude of sins. Nevertheless it would be hard to extend the reproach for such narrowness to the university itself. The good people of Cambridge proper, and of course more particularly of the outlying districts of the town, it must be said, take a very passive interest...
...result, the country owes unspeakable gratitude to the World for its bold exposure of the truth. The Alpha Delta Phi Society has hitherto been supposed to be a harmless college society, organized for the purpose of permitting its members to wear breast-pins of a peculiar form. Under its cloak of innocent breast-pins the society is nevertheless - as the World has discovered - endeavoring to make itself the ruling power of the nation, and its dangerous character can be readily perceived under the light of alleged publicity which the World has thrown upon...