Word: garments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When Anthony Comstock recently lectured at Princeton, the students, with a considerate regard for his feelings, draped the statue of "The Gladiator" with a bifurcated garment of red flannel...
...black or mixed black; or when of cotton or linen fabric, of white. The surtout or great coat must be also of black-mixed with not more than two capes. The buttons of the above dress must be flat, covered with the same cloth as that of the garments, not more than eight nor less than six on the front of the coat and four behind. A surtout, or outside garment, is not to be substituted for the coat. But the undergraduates are permitted to wear black gowns, in which they may appear on all public occasions. Night-gowns...
Upon the occasion of the procession on Monday a curious lack of uniformity was noted in the gowns worn by the members of the faculty. One peculiar garment greatly resembled an alpaca duster minus the sleeves. While some voluminous robes swept the pavement others crept up to an unseemingly shortness. In a word, there seemed to be no clear distinctive mark by which a member of the faculty could be distinguished as such. This subject has been revived at every Class Day for years, and it again provokes comment when the garments so essential to the proper ceremonies...
...reward for any stain that we cannot remove from cloth, or for any garment that is brought to our establishment and is not properly repaired, or for any misfit we make. We manufacture all kinds of athletic goods. Call and see the newly invented parcimento seat on our tights. Sole agent for Ollendoff's pants stretcher. J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard...
...reward for any stain that we cannot remove from cloth, or for any garment that is brought to our establishment and is not properly repaired, or for any misfit we make. We manufacture all kinds of athletic goods. Call and see the newly invented parcimento seat on our tights. Sole agent for Ollendoff's pants stretcher. J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard...