Word: tasselled
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...reciter of our forefathers ? the reciter magnificent ? the lady of the awe-inspring brow and grave yard contralto who tore The Raven to tatters on the slightest provocation, the cadaverous youth who was so comic delivering Farmer Corn-tassel at the County Fair ? these, with the hansom-cab-driver and the professor of penmanship who drew little birds with flowing scrolls in their beaks, are rapidly passing into oblivion. Alas...
From May 1 on, Seniors are required to wear caps and gowns every morning until 1 o'clock. Class officers will be distinguished by a red tassel and braid. The Committee is especially anxious that class officers and members of the Phi Beta Kappa be measured promptly, as caps and gowns are worn when their group pictures are taken for the Senior Album. Owing to the large number of orders which have to be filled, an incentive for early measurement is offered, since after March 31 the price of the complete outfit will be advanced to $9.50 as against...
...these fields to obtain the highest recognition; but many minor aids can be given to raise the position of the scholar in the college. One of these would be to provide the caps and gowns of members of Phi Beta Kappa with a distinguishing mark similar to the red tassel of the class officers...
Class officers should inform the men at the Cooperative when they are being measured, in order that red braid and tassel may be put on their outfit. There will be no extra charge for this. It is especially important that class officers and members of Phi Beta Kappa be measured promptly, as caps and gowns must be worn when the group pictures are taken for the Senior Album...
...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...