Word: suited
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...surplus to the class committee in order that a meeting of the senior class may be called. The seniors will remember that at the last meeting of the class the motion to provide that the Ninety-one class day garment be the cap and gown instead of the dress suit was laid on the table until the next meeting; those men who favor the new method of dress will find this an excellent opportunity to bring the subject up for a final vote...
...Yale University foosball team's suit will be as follows: White sweater with a Y on the breast, blue jersey, mele-skin knickerbockers, canvas jacket, blue belt, stockings...
...suggestion of your correspondent that the class of '91 should return to the good old custom of wearing the cap and gown on Class Day, instead of the inappropriate and inconvenient dress suit, is one that will find favor in the eyes of all broad-minded college men. The cap and gown was the students' dress at Harvard before the dress suit was even thought of. Why then should we continue a modern custom that has nothing to recommend it, unless it be the saving of a few dollars? The majority of men would be amply repaid for the expense...
...will deny the utter incongruity of the comparatively recent practice of wearing evening dress. The only objection to the revival of the old and picturesque costume of (cap) and gown is, perhaps, one of expense; and this objection is easily removed. If a man does not own a dress suit, he is obliged eithfr to buy or to rent one for Class Day. In this case I have no hesitation iu saying that the gown would be much the less expensive costume. If one cannot afford silk, there are other materials which might serve the purpose quite as well...
...call the attention of seniors to a communication in another column on the subjet of wearing caps and gowns on Class Day. The suggestion is well worth consideration by '91. Nothing can be more out of place than the dress suits as now worn, and why such an unbecoming and conventional costume was ever allowed to supplant the picturesque dress of older days it is difficult to see. Caps and gowns would have the advantage of giving a more distinctiye character to Class Day, and would revive associations of early college days, which would be far more enjoyable than...