Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard students wear shabby hats. Their brogues are well shined; their golf stockings are imported; their knickers and jackets do credit to the fashion plates; their tennis shirts and colorful ties are at once neat and attractive. But by their hats ye shall know them. Faded, dirty, greasy hats; hats discouraged and dissolute, torn, broken, bent, crushed, tipsy; hats that have seen life and have not come back unstained; hats that have been curious about the scum of mankind only to have scum spattered upon them; hats that have lost their ideals, that no longer dream dreams or see visions...
...higher standard of work for their degrees. The details of this plan show it to be entirely superfluous in a college having a liberal curriculum; and, moreover, it is highly doubtful whether students in any college would submit to being pigeon-holed in so cold-blooded a fashion...
...that they could not get away with it at the college that they came from. They do it now because they can, and will, get away with it until the Harvard cheering section feels a little shame and self respect and throws them out in none too gentle a fashion. These individuals who persist in coming into the cheering section where they don't belong, place themselves on par with that low down rabble that infests the wooden stands and puts up such a wonderful exhibition of fair mindedness...
Unfortunately this is not an isolated instance. At a number of recent football games some of the spectators have hooted in the same nasty fashion...
...appeared. The Midget strong man, the Midget conjurer, the Midget "Cleopatra" with the winning ways--these and many more were there. The Midget cowboys did their stunts, the Midget soldiers marched, and the Midget singer rendered "Girl of My Dreams", while the beauties of the chorus went on miniature fashion parade. Taken all in all, a very good example of small people "going...