Word: toga
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Latin scholars of America. And such a man is accused of deliberately mixing up names and assigning marks by lottery!! And who is the accuser? An editor of the - Harvard Echo!! That such accusations against such a man could not have been brought save by a candidate either for toga asyli or for the toga virilis, there can be no doubt. Meanwhile, it is a disgrace to the College to have the trashy effusions of such unripe boyhood as the above extract trumpeted abroad as the "representative" opinion of Harvard students...
...nothing in that line except a dressing-gown, and that I had not undertaken to make a guy of myself. So the class proceeded to array me in various garments belonging to the studio. A piece of embroidered mummy cloth was draped artistically over me, like a Roman toga; a sort of parti-colored cap, like those found in snapping crackers, was placed on my head; and my feet were wound up in a Turkey rug. I felt like a fool; but the class looked satisfied and that was the main point. They were a curious collection of ladies...