Word: dress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reason for the failure of so many college graduates in the business field may be found in their own opinion that immediately after graduation they should start at the top. There are seven maxims which might well be followed. First, look well to your own self. Dress according to your station. Second, know the thing that you are doing, and know that you know it. Third, do not burn the midnight oil. He is a blockhead who cannot do all his work in the day time. It is merely a matter of concentration, pure and simple...
...first event in the dedication exercise of the new M.I.T. buildings will be a dress rehearsal of the great masque and pageant on Saturday. This will be the public's only chance to see the performance of which Professor Ralph Adams has had general direction, and which has been developed by several other artists...
...from her husband. There-upon the wife becomes jealous, and finally repents that she has turned her husband into one corner of the eternal triangle. She begs him to return to his old habits of life, but to her consternation he informs her that he is now satisfied to dress and appear well, yet declares that he will spend his evenings with her as formerly...
...insignia or not; it is funny, but harmless. But when the 1916 Class Committee solemnly asserts that this guileless travesty is one of the oldest traditions of Harvard, it is time for a protest in the name of our motto. There was a remote epoch in which academic dress was regularly and correctly worn, but throughout the greater part of the nineteenth century the Harvard Senior wore ordinary clothes on all occasions except Class Day, when he appeared in a dress suit and high hat. He wore his dress suit all day, and consequently looked as if he had been...
...story is woven about the lives old a husband and wife. The former is a studious sort of man who dresses shabbily and cares nothing about appearances; the wife, on the other hands, cares a great deal for society, and finally persuades her husband to try the new way of living. The latter makes such a good impression in society that he is sought after by a married women, who is estranged from her husband. The wife than becomes jealous, repents of having urged her husband to go into society, and finally begs him to return...