Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...uniform of the Association shall consist of a crimson handkerchief or cap, white shirt, white knee-breeches, trunks, or drawers, and crimson stockings or socks...
...book one night, when suddenly his door was thrown open, and in walked two strangers. They were queer companions: for one was a tramp, old, seedy, blue-nosed, and weather-beaten; and the other was a full-blown Sophomore in all the glory of cane, harlequin suit, and shirt embroidered with little pink turtles...
...declaration of colors must be made with every entry, colors to be described in this order: first, color of handkerchief or cap; second, color of trunks or drawers. It is particularly requested that blue and white (together) be not chosen. Dress to consist of shirt and trunks or drawers to the knee. No person will be allowed to compete unless properly attired...
...photograph of one of Raphael's Madonnas, which adorned our modest study. We had read all about the grievances of the Memorial Hall victims which are almost as enlivening as the old plank-walk appeals; all the discussions intended to prove that a man who wears a clean shirt insults a man who does not, or (and to the latter opinion I rather incline) vice versa. We had read, too, of the woful condition of college morals and college men, who commit the heinous sin of wearing ulsters and smoking cigarettes, and whose moral character, as might be expected from...
...severe case of pride that I am at a loss what to prescribe for its cure, but I think that the dignity of the free-born Vermonter, which is offended by the expose of muscle in public, would suffer little if a very simple remedy were applied, viz. a shirt...