Word: wig
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sperian tradition as regards the actor's dress. Whatever would be gained in historical interest would be counterbalanced by the loss of all that was Roman in the play. Thus it is related of Garrick in Macbeth, that he played the part of the Moor in a powdered gray wig; and it is probable that in Shakspere's time there was an equal conformity with the prevailing English fashions. This feature of the play the Shakspere club does not care to reproduce. The attempt will be made, instead, to imitate with historical fidelity the costume of the Romans...
These applied to all the students. For the freshmen still harder rules were made. The lives of that class must have been made miserable by the exactions and duties which were required of them. Everyone from the president in his wig and gown down to the newly fledged sophomore could make those poor mortals do their bidding. The freshmen then had to eat "humble pie" such as they have never since tasted, even when nowadays their fondest hopes are blasted. How low they were held by their betters these last rules will show...
Always noted for boldness and originality, the Tech., in its last number, certainly outdid itself in trying to be funny, when it published a cut of an old lady's wig, all powdered and curled, and asked below that agonizingly funny question, "What are the Wild Waves Saying?" Surely the reply comes as an echo from the Trinity Tablet that the Tech. - ha! ha! ha! has a page of - ha! ha! ha! cuts, don't look at them - ha! ha! ha! it's really too painful - ah! - [Nassau...