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Harlow called him "Lone Star," after Lone Star Dietz, the Indian chief of the pro football Boston Redskins. So did his classmates. And they applauded him. They even whistled at him once senior year when he stripped to his red fiannel underwear on a Dunster House stage...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: Sheldon Dietz: A One-Man Pressure Group | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

...students who have shown by their previous records that they have the ability and inclination to take varied courses as well as skills within their own fields.6Cornell students in full dress Ivy League uniform at Cornell's Statler Hotel Not all Cornell men ordinarily dress quite so formally. Grey fiannel suits and sport jackets are not as much in evidence in places like the agricultural campus. Except for special occasions, they are not usually worn anywhere at Cornell...

Author: By Daniel A. Rezneck, | Title: Cornell: One the Ivy League's Frontier | 10/9/1954 | See Source »

Titcomb agreed with Stead man, but added that the serge might be fiannel instead, and is folded over the wooden stick of Wilde...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-OCD Chief, Locals Fend Over Finer Points of Bulling | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...90th man was located and Bones shutters clattered. For the men left on the lawn, the disappointment was final but at least the tension was over Most juniors hurried off to their evening feed, while a few lingered on to watch the grey fiannel men parade, lock-step, from the courtyard. The society seniors marched out swiftly, saying nothing and looking neither to the right nor the left

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: Traumatic Day for Yalies As 90 Get Old Society Tap | 5/4/1951 | See Source »

...Miss Helen Mills of New York City last year found the local habit of "going around in fiannel shorts the most ridiculouse I've ever seen." Some, indeed, objected to the ivied tradition of even long finnels...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Womanless Summer School A Thing of the Distant Past | 6/10/1948 | See Source »

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