Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hat, No Interview...
There was every reason why this nakedness of tousled Crimson craniums should aggrieve Wagenfeld. Hatlessness is considered second only to sweat shops in the hat worker's catalogue of sins. Evidence of this is Wagenfeld's boast about the sign at the information window of the International office reading, "Our staff has been instructed not to give interviews to people not wearing hats...
...third day of my stay in Cambridge I found the answer. At my first lecture I found my seat and tried to make myself comfortable. It was at this moment that the Harvard hat problem hit me kerplunk in the face...
...There was a lack of provisions for disposal of hats. My hat rolled off the arm of the chair; it rolled off my lap; it was on the floor more often than in my possession; it was a nuisance and distraction all through the class...
...worried. "Hatlessness in universities leads to hatlessness elsewhere. The college man of today is the business executive of tomorrow. The habits they form in college may stay with them in later years. That is the lesson I learned on my first day in class at Harvard." Is the hat gone to stay