Word: tassel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were no pads or head gears or similar protection, for mass play had not been invented. A few of the Harvard men went bareheaded while others wore crimson football caps of soft wool without visors; the Yale team wore long blue caps knit like a stocking with a blue tassel...
...university man. But in order that the Harvard-Yale idea may have its full effect in England there must be visible rewards for prowess in the new forms of sport. Blues and half-Blues must be awarded. We suggest (since the head is here chiefly concerned) a blue tassel to the mortar-board, and a blue-and-white tassel for a half Blue. If Oxford dallows women to compete, the Blue will naturally be in the stockings. The design of the half-Blue in this case we do not presume to suggest. The London Times...
...guardian through unwitting, but nevertheless harassed, owners to the very descendants of Lowenskold. Far from treating his heirs more kindly, the ghostly grandsire bedevilled the son of the house with a wasting disease. But for a lovelorn governess the jewel would never have been found, glinting in the woolen tassel of a castaway cap. She lays the ghost, and saves the son, but all, alas, for his other sweetheart...
Last week another President, Calvin Coolidge, clad in black academy robes and mortarboard cap with gold tassel, stood before a microphone on the Georgian portico of Samuel Phillips Hall to help celebrate the sesquicentennial of Phillips Academy. Mrs. Coolidge was sitting behind him, moved not so much by what he was saying as by a hymn she had just heard. It was her favorite Jesus I Love Thee and also the hymn of Mercersburg Academy, where her son Calvin Jr. schooled before his death in 1924. It was sung by nearly a thousand Andover students, and Mrs. Coolidge added...
...Lindbergh acquired the first string of honorary letters after his name; M. A. S., Master of Aeronautical Science. The honor was accorded by St. Joseph College, Philadelphia; a Jesuit institution. At the ceremonial dinner, the flyer wore a gold-lined gown, a silver tassel on his flat academic...