Word: straws
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prize of one straw-hat sandwich at Jimmie's has been offered to any player who succeeds in Knocking off the spire of Memorial Hall. The betting odds are 1492 to 1919 in favor of the CRIMSON and the largest crowd in history is expected to witness the complete demolition of the blasphemers of the sacred "transcript...
...Straw Hat Day" will be observed in the University tomorrow and all men should make it a point to procure one before the Princeton baseball game...
...prize of a straw hat has been offered by Durant & Co., to any member of the University nine who hits a double, a triple, or a home run in the Dartmouth game. Any man who is eligible for the prize after tomorrow's contest, may select any hat from Durant's stock...
...there one "H" man who did not encircle his straw with the ribbon of his accomplishment, one newspaper man who did not by the same means uphold the honor of the press? Initialled pipes, and warm, though honorable, sweaters, with all those other external marks of glory in which the college man is supposed to revel, are here denied the winner for public display. On straw hats alone might men show they had been the doors of great deeds...
...that has gone. The uniform cap has replaced the gallant and beribboned straw. No more on candid headwear in the Yard is seen the vertical black and red stripes of the crew-man's ribbon. No more the horizontal stripes of the hockey man. Where are the straws of yesteryear? Where is the glory that once was hatbands? Where are our ancient symbols...