Word: doeskin
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...every respect very different organizations.) These officers were conspicuous, in full evening dress, with sashes of various colored ribbon, white gauntlets, swords and caps about the size of a saucer, placed at various angles on their elaborately dressed hair. We noticed those of one "Corps" in white doeskin trousers and high boots. The tables on the platform were occupied, the front one by professors who were to join with the rest in celebrating the festive occasion, and the one behind it by the "Prasidium," consisting of six officers from the different Corps...
...Doeskin trousers are becoming popular in South", is the enigmatical sentence contained in the item column of a recent number of the Yale News. whatever this mysterious utterance may mean, we must remonstrate with our esteemed contemporary for permitting such dangerous secrets to be thus rudely brought to the garish light of day in its columns. It is such things as these that fasten the sligma of indiscretion and irresponsibility upon the college press. The News has been indiscreet; let it reform...