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...record for Phillips Brooks House old clothes drives was hung up last week when the students of the University, stripping their wardrobes of many choice bits of raiment, donated a total of 1468 articles. As in past years ties were well in the van throughout the whole drive, finishing with a total number of 375 while shirts, their nearest rivals, could do no better than 176. Socks, collars, underwear, and shoes were strung out behind the leaders in that order with all the other common articles of clothing bringing up the rear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pianola Rolls, Lampoons, Ten Dollar Bill, Telephone Directory, New Suit-All Taken in P. B. H. Clothes Drive | 5/10/1928 | See Source »

With the Old Timer's Number the Lampoon has definitely made its break with the traditional Brooks Brothers garb and has stepped out in the smart raiment of the New Yorker. When one sees the cover of this latest number, one wonders only: Why hasn't it happened before? No, one doesn't either! Realizing that the R on the rampant bicyclist's sweater is merely atmosphere, one still wonders if in the good old days those he-hellions did wear Radcliffe sweaters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reviewes Finds Current Lampoon Has Dropped Traditional Brooks Brothers Garb--C. H. Platt Applauds the Change | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...tired, greying statesman donned formal raiment, last week at Belgrade, submitted while a valet pinned upon him the blazing orders which are his, and then rode wearily off to the white stone Royal Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Cabinet at Last | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

Commented The Nation, intellectual weekly: "Riches and power?and orders for shoe polish. There was once a man who talked differently. 'Blessed are the meek,' he said. 'Why take ye thought for raiment?' 'Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.' 'Go and sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor.' 'Verily I say unto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.' 'It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.' And in one terrible passage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riches & Power | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

Will Wabash continue to be among the backwoods schools of the Middlewest, when the East points to formal raiment? No--decidedly not. A ruling is in order, to require all students to wear dress suits to lectures, and tuxedos to laboratories and recitations. Faculty and trustees--do your duty! The Bachelor. Wabash College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Nine O'Clocks, on Saturdays. | 12/13/1927 | See Source »

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