Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least five times a year every undergraduate hears the chestnut about the freshman who wore a coat and tie to breakfast one morning--and just that. It seems that he was determined to carry out University regulations to the letter. Whether or not this story is true, dining hall biddies have been so concerned this spring about keeping the undergraduate well-clothed that the incident is easy to believe. Another slightly less plausible explanation is that the cleaning biddies have communicated their perennial aversion to shorts, acquired from their habit of sweeping around those strewn on bedroom floors...
Housemasters well deserve their reputation for staunchly upholding good taste in clothing. Witness last week's example, when the Masters' Council stamped out the Adams House attempt to drop the coat and tie rule. They should act equally fast in revoking the biddies' prohibition of shorts in the dining halls. The biddies' actions, Housemasters must agree, are obviously short-sighted...
...clad luxury, but a reminder from the Dean's office has brought back the rumpled seersucker jacket and the gaping collar. Leigh Hoadley, Master of Leverett House, and Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams House, were referred to an agreement made at a December, 1950, Housemasters' meeting, that "the coat and tie rule" should always be observed in College dining halls...
...Fable) shatter his belief that he is just a simple agrarian with a literary bent, confided to a Manhattan interviewer that he long since missed his true calling. Said he wistfully: "I was born to be a tramp. I was happiest when I had nothing. I had a trench coat then with big pockets. It would carry a pair of socks, a condensed Shakespeare and a bottle of whisky. Then I was happy and I wanted nothing and I had no responsibility...
...comments are usually accompanied by a slight quavering of the speaker's shoulders, as if these still bore the unhealed scars of a Wyndham Lewis drubbing. To many, the mere mention of Lewis' name evokes a hefty figure, dressed in a broad black hat and sweeping black coat, glaring sternly at humanity through formidable glasses. Sir Osbert Sitwell recalls Lewis sitting at a restaurant table back in 1919. "Remember...