Word: coonskin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today the coonskin of Dartmouth takes the place in the Stadium of the blue-grey ranks of the Army. The stiffness of ordered regimentation characteristic of the military gives way to the informal enthusiasm of a college released on one of its biggest holidays. One doesn't have to make an effort to welcome Dartmouth to the Yard; her students are not honored guests who are to be greeted with formality and assiduously introduced to Harvard. Two Colleges as close together as Harvard and Dartmouth don't need an introduction; and with customary Harvard indifference, formalities may be waved aside...
Newspaper cartoonists for a decade have clothed the college undergraduate in raccoon-skin coat, baggy trousers, battered and blighted felt hat. Such were the sacerdotal vestments of the initiate "collegian." But last week, Princeton's witty and learned Dean Christian Gauss hailed the passing of the coonskin. Said he: "Undergraduates who wear coonskin coats now are not nearly so jaunty about it as they used to be; they are quite properly a little shamefaced. Their Eskimoish enduements are relics of the past age of 'collegiatism.' Students now wear them for lack of polo coats or Chesterfields...
...before Christmas, while his son, John Coolidge. moved about Washington in a voluminous coonskin coat, and while Mrs. Coolidge did final wrappings and adjustments (there were five White House Christmas trees to trim), the President worked away in his office. Late in the afternoon he began dictating the speech he will deliver to the Pan-American Congress in Havana .next fortnight. After dark, he joined Mrs. Coolidge and drove to Sherman Square, behind the Treasury Building. Thousands of Washingtonians awaited them. While motors tooted and church bells rang and the Marine Band played Cantique de Noël, the President touched...
...City of New York experimented. Under the white rays of 33,000 watts of electric flood lights they defeated an alumni eleven 5-0 in a night game. Spectators followed the open plays; were puzzled by shadows in line plunges. The traditional grandstand background of spectators, girls, coonskin coats was blotted out. The experiment was deemed unsatisfactory for important games. A white ball was used...
...appeared on the stage in our red flannels and coonskins (I wish I had a coonskin) the management would probably complain," she concluded aggrievedly...