Word: suits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...truth, is at first surprised, then indignant, and perhaps at last, in many cases, rebellious. The upper classes after having made various attempts; with complaints and petitions, have become resigned. They recognize the fact that legally recitations cease the afternoon before, and begin the morning after Thanksgiving day, and suit their actions accordingly,- which means that most of them go home, stay over Sunday, and come back only to hear of small audiences in chapel, and of the numbers attending recitations being so reduced that they wonder at any attempt at all to hold recitations should be made...
...only say that as a large majority of '85 are Cleveland men this request seems to us no more than just. Then let the seniors in their meeting this evening ask their committee to make this change and the date for the election can be made to suit all parties...
...class dress of the seniors of Wabash College is a sailor suit. They will appear as a class this way at commencement...
...With regard to costumes, the more favorite is a white flannel suit and trousers, not knickerbockers...
...following points: On the injury that would be done to the university as a place of education, particularly as tending to do away with the requirement of residence as a condition for the degree; as necessitating a change in the methods and subject of the examination to suit a new class of female students; on the conviction that a "higher education" of women, secured under conditions similar to that of men, would "endanger their health and make them unfit for the duties of family life;" on the danger to which "future mothers and teachers of our race would be exposed...