Word: coats
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...back of his note-book. The other day I thought I would watch Snodkins and discover, if I could, his method of taking notes. He came in just in time to be marked absent by the instructor, spent some very precious moments in getting off his coat, and arranging himself generally, but was at last, I thought, ready to go to work. But not yet. What good are introductions? Snodkins listens to them attentively, that is, he has his eyes firmly fixed on the lecturer, a scrutiny which he keeps up for fully twenty minutes. At last, however, a point...
Lost or taken by mistake.- An over coat of dark blue rough cloth, and rather short. The finder or possessor will oblige by returning to 17 Weld...
...they gather. The lecture never begins before a quarter past the hour, and during that time the students straggle in, one by one. Each has an enameled cloth or leather pocket, in which he carries his papers and books for taking notes. He leisurely hangs up his hat and coat, spreads out his papers, and takes from his pocket an inkstand and a common steel pen. The blackened desks and streaked floors give ample proof of the catastrophes that have overtaken these inkstands in times past. An American stylograph would be an untold blessing to the German student, and somebody...
...houses, with wives and families, and stately butlers, and servants in livery, giving dinners all in the best style, so descending and gracious, waving their hands, and mincing their words as if they were the cream of the earth, but without anything to make them clergymen but a black coat and white tie. And the bishops and deans come with women tucked under their arm; and they can't enter church but a fine powdered man runs first with a cushion for them to sit on and a warm sheepskin to keep their feet from the stones...
That no under-graduate to whom these injunctions may extend, be permitted to appear within the limits of the college, or town of Cambridge, in any other dress than is before described unless he has on a night gown or an outside garment be necessary over his coat...