Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal unless the High Sheriff opens the ceremonies, he will understand the significant part this kindly old gentleman has played in Harvard life for the last thirty three years. At every commencement since 1899 he has donned his blue court coat with gold buttons, his white waistcoat, and top hat, and has marched in the annual June academic procession to open the ceremonies with a blow of his official sword on the rostrum and the traditional words, "The assembly will now come to order...
...Hat-doffing and errand running characterized the life of the Harvard Freshman during the eighteenth century, if we are to believe the records of customs of Harvard College written into a copy book by an instructor in 1781 and even then called "ancient...
...first rule decreed that no Freshman should wear his hat in the Yard "unless it rains, hails, or snows, provided he be on foot and not have both hands full." Freshmen were also required to remove their hats when addressing Seniors or when in their chambers. All undergraduates, according to these customs, took their hats off in the presence of any member in the government of the College...
...week the real seat of U. S. Government was the front seat of President Roosevelt's specially-built Plymouth touring car. In it for hours at a time he drove along the dried clay roads around Warm Springs, Ga. carrying all problems of state under his soft felt hat...
...Rome. Of all places Commissar Litvinoff chose the city of Pope Pius XI and of Benito Mussolini as his next destination. Just before sailing from Manhattan on the crack Italian liner Conte de Savoía he lost his hat twice in a wild mêlée of Communist sympathizers and autograph hunters, retrieved it a second time with the merry cry, ''Ah-at last I have caught your American tempo...