Word: garbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here the six younger classes involved in the day's revelry will be converging and will vie for liveliness of garb. Tradition calls for something with dash and curiosity, often a costume idea for a specific class repeated over the years. though equally often varied as the fancy of the prime movers of each group shifts...
Costume rules issued to the corps of ushers call for traditional Radcliffe garb: all-white dresses, and white or spectator pumps with rubber heels. Hats and white gloves will be worn at the Baccalaureate services. Rubber heels are a 1948 addition to the costume, made necessary by Sanders' hardwood floors and acoustics which in other years have amplified the clatter of uncushioned spike heels...
Radcliffe opinion on the proposed joint examination plan ranged yesterday from snap disapproval to a willingness to hear the whole story, but most 'Cliffedwellers voiced deep dismay at the prospect of "going formal" to a date with a blue book. Customary 'Cliffe garb for exams is an ensemble of beat-up blue jeans, sneakers, and size 40 shirt, which are frowned upon in the Yard...
...otherwise the big derby was its usual noisy self. An insurgent from M.I.T., Peter Dayton by name, crashed into the line of march and was soon heaved into the drink by several hundred howling women in graduation garb and beanies...
Ferreting through the hard pressed staffs of Boston hospitals for a reserve supply of pulse-quickeners in nurse's garb, Summer J. Chertok '48 and Frederic M. Fialkow '51, co-chairmen of the PBH blood committee, issued a frantic plea to donors last night to keep "hands-off" policy with the nurses in the blood drive starting Thursday, March...