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...Hatter of Alice's Wonderland had nothing on Ed Wagenfeld of Local 45 of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union. But this latter day hatter, who divides his time between Adams House and Littauer as one of the fellows under Harvard's Trade Union plan, isn't eccentric like Lewis Carroll's haberdasher. He's just peeved; peeved at "hatless Harvard." Hats are bread and butter to Mr. Wagenfeld. Harvard men care very much for bread and butter; very little for hats...
...experience at Harvard has brought me face to face with the hater's major problem," he wrote in an article entitled "He Learns About Hatlessness at Harvard," which appeared in the official organ of his union, a newspaper called The Hat Worker. Naturally it pained Wagenfeld, striding through the Yard with his chapeon at a rakish angle, to see fair haired, bare-haired boys appear from behind every tree and building...
There was every reason why this nakedness of tousled Crimson craniums should aggrieve Wagenfeld. Hatlessness is considered second only to sweat shops in the hat worker's catalogue of sins. Evidence of this is Wagenfeld's boast about the sign at the information window of the International office reading, "Our staff has been instructed not to give interviews to people not wearing hats...
...Wagenfeld was annoyed and a little discouraged. Hope seemed to lie only in an early frost which would necessitate some sort of headgear. But November came, and it was the same as September; la tete couverte was still in a minority...
...Wagenfeld did not minimize, however, the results that could be expected from the present program. "Of course we can't expect to see any effects right away," he remarked, at the same time reiterating his belief that the program was a long step in the direction of labor stability...