Word: gowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wedding gown...
President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University spent several hours last week sitting among newsgatherers in a Cambridge police court. Many another famed son of Harvard was there with him. Blood and eggs had stained Harvard Square in the largest town-and-gown outbreak of recent years (TIME, Feb. 21). Thirty-three students and six "townies" were on trial for disturbing the peace. Distinguished counsel argued counter-charges against the Cambridge police, who had, complained the riotous students, been unnecessarily brutal with their nightsticks. Nothing more serious than fines and reprimands promised to result from the hearings, but the testimony...
...Queen Mary wore a jet black mourning gown when Parliament was last opened (TIME...
Although interested in medicine, she would not allow a male doctor to attend her. When her graduating gown was delayed, and a tactless youth offered to lend her his, she almost fainted. "What? Lady graduate in man's gown?" she said, and went back to China a devout Christian...
...which comes to the fore periodically in such disturbances as the University Theatre riot last Friday night is found back in the days when the town of Cambridge was first gaining recognition as a distinct entity. Fifty-two years ago a writer for the Magenta in an article termed "Gown vs. Town" comes out strongly against the contaminating influence of the town then growing up around the University...