Word: coats
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...condemn, more specifically than it did, the pretty widespread snobbery which is practiced toward non athletic men by their fellow students who consider themselves far above them in social "rank." There are many cases of men who "cut," or treat condescendingly, a fellow-student because he wears a seedy coat or is unpolished in his manners, even though he has worked side by side with them in the laboratory or the class room for months, and may have given evidence of good, solid, manly qualities. In the majority of cases the man so snubbed will gradually, I think, rise above...
...painful fact to acknowledge, but one which nevertheless must be brought to notice, that petty thefts in the gymnasium are becoming more and more numerous. Complaints come in constantly from one quarter or another that a hat, or a coat, or small sums of money, have been missed by some unsuspicious owner who did not take the precaution to stow away his property in a locker. Every now and then some one is caught in the act of appropriating-even from a closed locker-what does not belong to him, and the summary measures which are taken with the delinquent...
...class crews. To this executive committee of five members the crews should look for their instructions. Captains would then be relieved of the dread of unpopularity if they made mistakes, and would not become heroes if successful. Coaching would be the same for each crew, and not the coat of many colors that it has been in the past few years...
Some of the uniforms of the principal colleges this year are as follows: Harvard, crimson and black hats and coats, crimson jerseys with a white "H" trousers of English flannel, and crimson hose. Columbia, blue and white caps and blazers, white shirts with a blue "C" on the pocket, white trousers and blue hose. Princeton is to have about the same uniform as last year. Dartmouth, white coat, white jersey with a green "D," grey trousers and green hose. The Harvard freshmen are to have crimson and white coats, white jerseys with crimson "H," grey trousers and crimson hose. Brown...
Phillips Academy is to have blue and white coat, grey shirt and trousers, blue hose. Exeter, crimson and grey coats and hats, crimson jerseys, grey trousers and crimson hose. - Yale News...