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...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...
...will probably be no equipment distributed for at least a week. Each man will receive one regulation olive drab woolen uniform consisting of coat and breeches, one garrison or service cap, and one pair of canvas leggings. Later he will be issued a campaigning hat and hat-cord, a flannel shirt and a pair of shoes. This portion of the cadets' equipment, however, has not yet been received from the War Department, but will probably be on hand by the beginning of the spring term, when field work will be taken...
...Student Council is shirking its plain duty to country, to College, and to undergraduate. After a year of success, it has fallen flat in a crucial crisis. It has not heeded the summery twittering of the birds, nor the appearance of the succulent strawberry and the white flannel pant. In short it has not recognized the fact that the season of boaters is again with...