Word: tassel
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...monastic habit. Similarly, the skull caps worn by ecclesiastics to protect their tonsored heads were copied by the educational institutions, and by them, as by the Church, were preserved after they had been elsewhere discarded. The round caps first became peaker, then, the peak degenerated to a tassel. Square cloth caps were introduced by the University of Paris. The two types seem to have been combined in the modern head dress used at graduation...
...Hadley and Snow, the former an ex-Tufts player and the latter once captain at Dartmouth, were good ground gainers for the Cadets. Cannon and Van Tassel, at the two ends of the line, excelled in recovering fumbles, and R. G. Hadley '20 played a great part in stopping many of the Battery's gains through the line...
FIRST CORPS CADETS BATTERY ACannon, l.e. r.e., Storer, FarringtonBurnham, Emerson, l.t. r.t., Lancaster, ElliotWilliams, l.g. r.g., James, FurnessMillmore, Young, c. c., SeldenKowall, r.g. l.g., Durden, WheelwrightR. Hadley, r.t. l.t., Mackie, PollardVan Tassel, Curtis, r.e. l.e., EckfeldtBrownRoss, Hinckle, q. q., SandsH. Hadley, l.h.b. r.h.b., HuntingtonSnow, r.h.b. l.h.b., Tobey, HoganSimmonton, f.b. f.b., MacName
FIRST CORPS CADETS BATTERY A Cannon, l.e. r.e., Farrington Van Tassel, l.t. r.t., Lancaster Williams, l.g. r.g., Durden Young, c. e., Seldon Kowall, r.g. l.g., James Hannon, r.t. l.t., Mackie Burnham, r.e. l.e., Storer Ross, q. q., Sands Hadley, l.h.b. r.h.b., Tobey Snow, r.h.b. l.h.b., Huntington Simmonton, f.b. f.b., McNamee...
...marked in red letters, Cap and Gown Day. Today the Senior at a great saving in laundry bills, dons for the first time his regalia of dignified black, which will distinguish him from lesser folk. He gets it to set right on his shoulders, maneouvers the tassel till it does not dangle in his eye but caressingly tickles him just in front of the left ear, and thus arrayed in the scholastic armor, struts or strides proudly across the green but erupted Yard. He is a Senior--he needs no button nor mustache to proclaim that fact...