Word: hat
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have not been rowing steadily, and perhaps not rowing at all. The fact of the races being "scratch" would seem to entitle every entry to a show for a seat in the boats, and to secure this it would seem to be fairer to draw the lots from a hat, rather than have the captains choose from the list in turn. Possibly the "lot" system may have been followed generally, but in one or two cases we think...
...Harvard Shirt, so called probably because the maker was advised by his friends who inspected the article to "give it a name." There is a collar dubbed "Harvard," because no one in Harvard wears a collar that looks anything like it. The application of the term to a hat that was put on the market last spring was particularly unfortunate. It is true that a few '78 men were inveigled into buying the "tile" just before Class Day, but as a large running track, carefully surveyed and levelled, extended around the hat, it did not meet the popular taste here...
...said, "Guide be blowed!" clapped my hat on my head, and fled...
...last the verdant caller took his hat and said good night...
...members of the Rifle Club talk of distinguishing themselves in the spring, not by especially good shooting, but by the adoption of a ribbon to wear on their hats. Doubtless they will shoot the hat before they have had it long...