Word: tassel
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...CAPS.The caps shall be of the material and form generally used, and commonly called mortar-board caps. The color shall be dark. The doctor's caps may be of velvet. Each cap shall be ornamented with a long tassel attached to the middle point of the top. The tassel of the doctor's cap may be in whole or in part of gold thread...
...will be under the management of the Republican Club but every man in the University is welcome to march. There will be no drilling but every man must have a uniform. This uniform consists of torch, cap, and gown. The cap is a white mortar-board with crimson tassel; the gown flows to the ankles and is crimson with white trimming. Men must be measured at once, as it takes some days to make the uniforms...
...delivered when finished. The material of the gown is alpaca, and will cost, with the cap, $7.50. Goods will be delivered by June 10 if measurements are left at the Co-operative before April 1. Class Day officers will wear, to distinguish them from the other seniors, a red tassel on their caps, the gowns remaining the same...
...distinction to be made in the case of the class day officers is a good one. The men have been elected by the class to their offices in recognition of some particular merit, and such marks of honor should have some recognizable feature on Class Day. The red tassel seems in an unostentatious way to provide just this badge of honor...