Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phillips Exeter Academy will be held tonight at 6 o'clock in the Hotel Somerset. Mr. Minot Simons, President of the Association, will be toastmaster, and the speakers will include: Mr. J. A. Tufts '78, Mr. Jeremiah Smith '92, Principal Lewis Perry, and Mr. Corning Benton '07. Informal dress will be worn...
...team and later between teams A and B, the University eleven lined up with Jenkins and Holder ends, Dunker and Greenough tackles, Kunhardt and C. J. Hubbard guards, Clark center, Spalding and Lee alternate quarterbacks, Owen, Gehrke, and Chapin backs. Eastman was given a day off and did not dress for practice...
...dummy scrimmage with the first eleven. The latter team lined up with Jenkins and Hill ends, Greenough and Dunker tackles, Kunhardt and Miller guards, Clark center, Buell quarterback, Owen Gohrke, and Chapin backs. Coburn, Eastman, Gordon, Holder. Hubbard, Hammond, and Spalding were given a holiday and did not dress for practice...
What is wrong with this picture? Here is a man seated at a dinner table between three ladies a butter plate and a dish of soup. He is in evening dress. In and around his buttonhole is a secondhand rose. More vegetables and even soup and fish are scattered about on the table and the guests. Both his hands are, strangely enough immersed part way in a finger bowl. Offhand there seems to be nothing wrong with the picture. But the faults are glaring to one who has studied a few rules of etiquette. Even those...
...comings-out of Lampy and no arbitrary date can be set in advance for the first appearance of "boaters". Man's conventions are unaccountable; a straw hat in a sea of felts, though the day be 90 in the shade, seems a de trop us that full dress suit at the informal dinner which tortures the gentleman in the etiquette advertisements. Here in Cambridge disregard for conventional toggery is reputed more conventional that convention itself. And some brave straws have already appeared; in fact, "the President has pointed the way with his Panama". It is a reasonable prophecy that only...