Word: hat
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Another case comes to mind of a friend who had strange, unaccountable ways with him, - a habit of starting to recitations without his hat, of sitting up all night and sleeping during the day, of experimenting how long it would be before an exclusive diet of crackers and milk would make him relish anything else, and last, but not least, of occasionally going to sleep by the wayside. It was mildly hinted that a connection with an institution in the neighboring town of Somerville would be more beneficial than a course at college. I am glad to say that...
...bent and wrinkled by age, dressed in cocked-hat and knee-breeches, with his hair powdered and done up in a queue. He looked like some Rip Van Winkle who might have graduated any time early in the last century, and have been sleeping quietly from that time, only to wake then and trouble...
...weak and watery, while he described my Hollis room as he knew it once with its sanded floor and two wooden chairs; or while he pictured the Yard with its five buildings, deserted but for an occasional boy in a long, bag-tailed black coat, three-cornered hat, and knee-breeches, running from room to room; or the President's cows feeding in the long grass and drinking from the pool of water that gathered where University now stands...