Word: dress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduates know the significance of the various devices connected with caps and gowns. Although the wearing of this form of dress is supposed to be a very old tradition it was not introduced into the University until 1893 when it was adopted from the English universities. There it has been in vogue since the twelfth century...
...them, as by the Church, were preserved after they had been elsewhere discarded. The round caps first became peaker, then, the peak degenerated to a tassel. Square cloth caps were introduced by the University of Paris. The two types seem to have been combined in the modern head dress used at graduation...
There are some little known facts in connection with the history of clothing at the University. At first it would seem that the students dressed plainly and soberly, but in 1745 the Overseers found it necessary to prevent the wearing of gold or silver brocade and lace. From then on various sumptuary laws were proclaimed regulating to the minutest detail every man's apparel--Sometimes prescribing on what public occasions nightgowns should be worn, and sometimes forbidding them altogether, as in 1822: "A night-gown of cotton, or fabric, or silk fabric may be worn....except on the Sabbath...
...dint of theatre parties and champagne, but simply because bourgeoisie and Philistines are in mortal terror of his intellect. Money-grubbers and little-brothers-to-the-rich feel in his indigence a power which deprives them of breath. It is part of the show that he should be poor. Dress him in the fashion, slip a yellow-back into his pocket, clap him into a limousine, and, no matter how brilliant he may be, he is useless, he has lost his spell...
Formal athletic teams once more are organized to compete with officially recognized opponents. College publications are again turning out their issues as in former times. Classes have changed from uniform to civilian dress, and their numbers have doubled, trebled, and even quadrupled in some instances. The once magic words "military duties" have lost their previously infallible power to calm instructors who wax wroth at sins of ommission and commission. There is also a growing spirit of optimism in the air, due to the replacement of the uncertain future of war times by the more discernable future in days of peace...