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With delegates chosen from the student body to represent all 48 states, the assembly will hold a preliminary meeting April 29, to be addressed by a prominent peaker. The sessions of the convention will be on April...
...black color is merely an adaptation of the monastic habit. Similarly, the skull caps worn by ecclesiastics to protect their tonsored heads were copied by the educational institutions, and by them, as by the Church, were preserved after they had been elsewhere discarded. The round caps first became peaker, then, the peak degenerated to a tassel. Square cloth caps were introduced by the University of Paris. The two types seem to have been combined in the modern head dress used at graduation...