Word: coats
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rest of the number is less controversial, more purely literary. Mr. Mitchell's "Study of Oscar Wilde" is judicious, sound, and pleasing, though he uses some odd English--"he was wretchedly raised"; "wearing his top coat every day and leaving it off on Sundays," "impulsive with protest against the contract of existence"; and "protagonists" in a wrong sense. The essay leaves us in doubt as to whether Wilde's work is really worth such thorough study and careful criticism...
Pennsylvania State College has a well-uniformed battalion under the charge of a commissioned officer. The battalion has the regular army outfit of cap, leggins, coat, and breeches, and thereby the students will be afforded the opportunity of receiving more extensive training in military science...
...little desire to hasten the process so thoughtfully provided by Providence. Hence the daily advent of the goody and her dust-provoking broom is a constant trial. He leaves each morning for his nine o'clock with the tragic assurance that he will return to find a smooth, even coat of the vital principle spread over his table-top, his "English Composition," and his haberdashery. The suggestion that for that venerable engine of superficial sanitation,--the broom, the electric vacuum cleaner might be substituted, will doubtless be met with the objection that the change would be financially impractical. The answer...
...Freshman rules in the "Cornell Sun" might well furnish the University, and especially its newest members, with material for self-felicitation. The Cornell freshman is distinctly heckled, it appear. There are places where he mustn't go at all, places where he may go if he wears a coat and an official cap, and places where he may go if he doesn't sit in the first three rows. If he wishes to smoke a numeral pipe, he may do so only in the privacy of his own chamber. He must never, never wear a preparatory school pin. He must...
Each of the four posts is to bear on its face fronting the approach to the bridge, a pink marble tablet bearing an inscription in bronze Roman capitals, each inscription to be different from the others. Above the inscription on two of them will be the coat of arms of the Society of the Cincinnati the the badge of the Legion of Honor and the seal of the Society of the Spanish War. On the other two tablets will be the seal of the University. The inscription on the Cambridge end up-stream will read as follows...