Word: garments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some of the professors are as fashionably clad as a farmer who has never even seen a city-cut garment. Professor - passed my window this morning, taking a walk, for he did not learn the antics of the gymnasium in his college days, and still holds to the old-time constitutional in the open air. He dresses so plainly, and with so little regard to modern style, that he looks positively quaint. Another equally learned professor, whom I met the other day, dresses also very plainly and unfashionably. Their manners are so unaffected and simple, with all their learning...
...latter responded, and although the prospects at first favored the freshmen, as they had about twenty more men, the cane was "whooped up" into Reed Hall, the rendezvous of the seniors, before the sophomores' muscle, and a complete victory resulted for the upper class. The sophomores wore no garment except pantaloons, and had the upper part of their bodies greased. The rush was one of the most hotly contested in college history and occupied three quarters of an hour...
...They would like you as one of their student traders, and your order for some sort of a garment, if only a trouser, would be appreciated by them and prove a satisfaction to you. These goods are immediate in style." - [Extract from a tailor's circular about college...
...Good heavens!" I answered in exasperation, "I have n't time to explain. Mr. Smilin, you are a proficient in Pretty Pol. Econ. Can you not tell me what sort of a garment suits best a very unproductive consumer...
...more I did. Do you? And this was the way in which I discovered that the Ferocity knew nothing about any garment except a strait-jacket, which does n't fit many people...