Word: tile
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...collar dubbed "Harvard," because no one in Harvard wears a collar that looks anything like it. The application of the term to a hat that was put on the market last spring was particularly unfortunate. It is true that a few '78 men were inveigled into buying the "tile" just before Class Day, but as a large running track, carefully surveyed and levelled, extended around the hat, it did not meet the popular taste here, and failed to be, as they say at the Gaiety, a gigantic success...
...best way to administer the reproof is without rudeness, and it appears to us that the sending of the head-waiter to request the removal of the obnoxious tile is a perfectly polite and gentlemanly manner of effecting this, and that it ought to be put into practice in every case where such a breach of etiquette occurs...
...head a tile...
...northern window of Memorial is not yet under way, owing to a strike of the stone-cutters who assist the glass-setters. The tile finish of Alumni Hall was begun yesterday...