Word: waistcoat
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...Advocate is made up of five timely and well-expressed editorials, three poems, one play, three stories, and an essay. The verse is of the average undergraduate standard. The play attempts too much in a short space to be effective. Of the stories, "The Man in Puce Waistcoat" relates a humorous incident, apparently in Eighteenth Century England, of how the choleric gentleman, in the costume described, lost five pounds by betting that another wayfarer at the inn could not cure the servant girl's earache. The pain, proved to be caused by an ant which was brought out by means...
...eager solicitors for clothes. We must discard our old clothes, of course, and if we cannot arrange to save them for the philanthropic societies, we are led to resort to these parties from whom we can expect a slight return. But it is quite impossible to sell the same waistcoat to four different people, as we are led to believe by their persistency. The ground in front of Memorial seems to have been mutually agreed upon as the choicest field of competition, and so the innocent student must run the gauntlet, to enter or leave the Hall, wondering whether...
Perhaps, too, the world has talked of indifference because the Harvard man says little of the things he cares for most. He wears neither a "society pin" upon his waistcoat, nor his heart upon his sleeve. He is silent about the good deeds that he does; yet week after week he goes to a "Boys' Club" in some wretched district of Boston; or he gathers about him the little band that centres round a "Home Library"; there is a sailors' mission where Harvard students may be found Sundays, and a "Prospect Union," where men who have toiled all day meet...
...subject of evening dress, if the coat and waistcoat are properly cut and proportioned, and made from tasty cloth, a good dress suit will last a man through his entire college course. But a dress suit is the worst thing to experiment on; many of them are out of style when new, simply because they are not properly cut. The Tuxedo can be dispensed with, if one is to be economical, but not the dress suit, for that is indispensable for every occasion of any importance after sun-down. The long frock is the swell coat of the season...
...subject of evening dress, if the coat and waistcoat are properly cut and proportioned, and made from tasty cloth, a good dress suit will last a man through his entire college course. But a dress suit is the worst thing to experiment on; many of them are out of style when new, simply because they are not properly cut. The Tuxedo can be dispensed with, if one is to be economical, but not the dress suit, for that is indispensable for every occasion of any importance after sun-down. The long frock is the swell coat of the season...