Word: hat
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...yesterday's edition I wish to say that the Board of Directors of the Dining Association have realized the increased stamping and hissing during the last few months, and after the disgraceful exhibition on Thursday night of last week they suspended the member of the association who kept his hat on for the purpose of creating a disturbance. Whatever the directors may do they cannot stop the hissing and stamping when a man keeps his hat on, and unless the members correct the evil of their own accord there is no remedy except the closing of the gallery to visitors...
THERE is a custom prevalent at Memorial Hall against which we wish to protest for the sake of the reputation of Harvard men as gentlemen. We refer to the deplorable practice of hissing and stamping whenever a man appears in the gallery with his hat on his head. Whether ladies are present or not the same things happen. If after Vesper services, for instance, a man in a crowd walks into the gallery with his head covered, the disgraceful uproar at once begins. The visitors do not realize the meaning of it; too often they think it is a personal...
...particularly emphasize the fact that this hissing and stamping are perfectly meaningless to the average visitor. Moreover, they seldom accomplish their purpose. The stranger either stands it until it becomes unendurable and then withdraws, or until notified by a director or waiter that he is expected to remove his hat...
...took a hat from Memorial with the owners name on silver plate may receive his own at Auditors desk...
WOULD the gentleman who by mistake took from the last meeting of the English Club a black stiff hat, Collins & Fairbanks, size 7 1-8 and left one size 7, be kind enough to exchange with...