Word: gown
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Gown Measurements...
...Seniors are reminded that in order to have the caps and gowns delivered in time for the Senior picture, Tuesday, March 27, will be the final day that these measurements can be taken. We wish to have the picture of the class complete, and no Senior will be allowed to be in the picture without a cap and gown. The class day committee urges that measurements be taken at once. Seniors should be measured this week as an act of courtesy to the Co-operative...
...from Saybrook to New Haven. On October 17, 1716, the corporations voted to remove the college permanently, owing to the business and scholastic superiority of the larger town. On October 21, 1916, 8,000 persons participated in the largest pageant in the world--the "Pageant of the Town and Gown," symbolizing the bond of friendship between one of America's foremost educational institutions and its "home town...
...week to six months were: Tintoretto, "Diana"; Piero Della Francesca, "Crucifixion"; Pesellino, "Building of the Temple"; Fra Filippo Lippi, "Madonna and Child"; Turner, "Pas de Calais"; Byzantine panel, 13th century, "Scenes from Life of St. Peter"; Rogier van der Weyden, "Noli me tangere"; Lucas Cranach, "Lady in Red Gown"; Filippino Lippi, "Descent from the Cross"; Moretto da Brescia, "The Magdalen"; 16th century Flemish pictures, "Annunciation," and "Crucifixion"; Dutch pictures, Rembrandt, "St. Bartholomew," Franz Hals, "Portrait of a Man Seated," David Teniers, the Younger, "The Five Senses," Girolamo da Santa Croce, "Portrait of a Man"; Nicholas Maes, "Portrait...
According to strict academic usage, the Harvard Senior's gown means, if anything, that his sister has taken a bachelor's degree. It is a bachelor's gown, so few Seniors are really entitled to it before Class Day, and not all the wearers, unforunately, are entitled to it then. It is a woman's gown--hence the Mother Hubbard shape, and the cut of a sweet girl graduate on the maker's advertisement. Now nobody minds whether the Senior wears his sister's insignia or not; it is funny, but harmless. But when the 1916 Class Committee solemnly asserts...