Word: flannel
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Even the malicious Cambridge weather is yielding to the omnipotent sway of spring. Day by day the overcoats and heavy winter suits are giving way to light and jaunty summer clothes. Flannel trousers have already appeared on the tennis courts and many youths have taken off their burdensome vests. But what is to happen to the clothing which is cast aside? Shall Max be called upon or shall it be put to some better use? The Phillips Brooks House has solved the problem, and for the next three days it will hold its annual spring clothing collection...
...athletic purposes. There is no doubt that if men were to be provided with decent equipment, many more would take an interest in competing than do at present. Men of mediocre ability do not care to come out for baseball when they have to play in their old white flannel trousers, use a ball with the horsehide...
...custom followed for several years of wearing blue coats and flannel trousers will be adhered to this year. Each dance will last for five minutes with an encore of three minutes, and cutting-in will be allowed only during an encore. In order to avoid confusion it is particularly requested that the Kirkland-street entrance of Memorial Hall be used by those arriving in carriages and that the Cambridge-street entrance be used by pedestrians. After 11 o'clock both doors will be open for those leaving in carriages. White carriage checks will indicate that carriages may be found...
...Seniors, to the last man, in ponderous exuberance at their celebration, have unwrapped their flannel trousers from the mothballs in which they have rested from the Freshman Jubilee in '14, and have practised the strange new dance steps which have come in since the polka and the two-step went out of fashion. They do not say much, but from veiled boasts it is to inferred that they expect to show these youngsters of '18 and '19 a thing or two about how to celebrate in real fashion. The senorial gown has been thrown aside, and these mages...
Later each cadet will be given a campaigning hat and hat-cord, a flannel shirt and a pair of shoes. This portion of the equipment, however, has not yet been received from the War Department, but will probably be on hand early in the spring term when field work will be taken...