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...blocked kick in the last quarter gave Pittsburgh's sloppy team a victory after it had been badly outplayed all afternoon by Washington and Jefferson. Score: Pittsburgh 6, Washington and Jefferson 0. Not many people are conscious, perhaps, that the initials D. & E., ki-yi-ing in the tassel of a cheer, stand for Davis and Elkins, a college in West Virginia. Army Cadets last week heard those initials screeched at them by the supporters of a team which they barely managed to edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 16, 1925 | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

...flopping, swishing, blinding, neck-tickling cap-tassel that is meant to depend over the left temple is uniformly black for bachelors and masters, golden for doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pomp | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

...Jews, driven from Europe, had taken England for their own. Baruch Frankl, "Jew of Jews," ordered his tenants to wear a fez with a tassel as Livery of the Manor. But Hogarth refused, and Hogarth's sister rejected Frankl's amorous advances. Things took place-Hogarth flogged Frankl; Hogarth was convicted, falsely, of murder; Hogarth was sent to Colmoor prison. Rebekah Frankl, beautiful, barbaric, with earrings as big as hoops, flung a red flower with a black heart of passion to Hogarth on his conviction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Super-Man* | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

Tradition requires Seniors to wear caps and gowns every morning until 1 o'clock from May 1 until the close of the college year. Red tassel and braid distinguishes the outfits of class officers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS DAY PLANS GIVEN BY SENIOR COMMITTEE | 2/12/1924 | See Source »

...earliest games with Yale, on November 12, 1881, the records speak of a "cold driving storm which soon wet the players to the skin," in spite of the fact that "the Yale team all wore long blue caps knit like a stocking with a blue tassel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wet Football Games No New Thing at University--Every Man in 1892 Cornell Game Picked Up 25 Pounds of Mud | 12/4/1923 | See Source »

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