Word: garbs
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Following the exhibition in accurate landing will come the last event, an alertness contest, involving speed trials in starting the planes and getting them off the ground. This race will start with the pilots in their tents. They will don their flying garb, run to their planes, start them, make a short flight, and return to their stations...
...very different guise from his autumnal aspect the Tiger Invades Cambridge tonight, yet rather than invasion it is peaceful penetration. Instead of the warlike garb of the gridiron, he enters the scene in fantastic dress or undress; instead of arraying himself in nose-guard and headgear, he screens his face behind the mask of Thespis; instead of cleated boots, he wears the sock and buskin...
...wildest demonstrations to express their disapproval of this sacrilege against tradition. Two hundred undergraduates, attired in ancient Greek costumes and carrying rose bowls, in imitation of Greek, vases, paraded through the ton despite the cold weather. In the midst of the procession marched a student in the garb of a Greek priest, carrying an urn of red hot ashes, as an emblem of cremation. At the head of the procession was borne a long streamer of white and blue, the Greek national colors...
...meet with laughter and scorn for the force of public opinion is great enough to keep a sober and appropriate dress, but it is a matter of pride that the Seniors have continued, voluntarily, a custom putting all men on absolutely the same basis, by adopting a universal distinctive garb for the graduating class...
...misery, there is reason for happiness. There is no Bursar's bill till February and Phillips Brooks House has ceased plundering us, at least for the time being. Moreover, Christmas ultimately will come and with it days of rest far from the reach of U4. So we may garb ourselves in the one suit we hid from Max and trudge merrily to our nine o'clock to make Sever once more echo to the famous words: Not prepared. There is still something for which to be thankful...