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Doctorate holders have added privileges. They can tie gold tassels to their hats and drape robes colored based on their institution of graduation. Harvard’s doctorate robes are crimson with black stripes on the arms. Further, faculty members who graduated from foreign universities are permitted to wear their often more extravagant—even fur-layered—regalia and hats from their previous institutions...

Author: By Punit N. Shah, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Graduation Robes, Explained | 5/25/2010 | See Source »

What: This year, Leverett House takes you on its annual trip to the 80s—but sloooowly. Be sure to head over early to one of those vaguely punk/retro stores in the Garage, and find yourself some legwarmers and a headband. Have your prefrosh drape her sweater around her shoulders and you’ll be all set to ease your way back into the last few decades of incredible music...

Author: By Sean Cuddihy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Weekend Roundup: Prefrosh Edition | 4/22/2010 | See Source »

...fear that many other Harvard services and traditions are next in line. Freshman Parents Weekend may become Parent Saturday. And those infamous, trendy lanyards that everyone (yes everyone) at Harvard dons around their necks? Next year they’ll be just a single, unknotted red string that you drape hopelessly over your shoulder...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: There's No Time To Read This | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...After you recovered these soldiers, what happened next? We would place the remains in a transfer case, which is sort of like a metal casket, and would drape the flag over it. Then we would load them onto the aircraft for transport. And when we would load them on, we did a little ceremony. The flight crew would be involved, standing in formation on either side of the bay doors, and we would do a little march from our vehicle to the plane and would situate the transfer case into the plane. There's a flag hanging overhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning Up Death at War — and at Home | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

...hide what’s not flattering.” Indeed, her loose silhouettes embody easy comfort and simplicity, as do the cotton and linen materials she chooses to work with. A combination of East and West, Gao’s clothes offer modern shapes that flatteringly fit and drape the body, at the same time evoking the linen shifts peasant-farmers wore in the late imperial period of China. Though Gao verbalized a distinction between Asian and American style, her ability to blend East and West seamlessly in her design aesthetic suggests that perhaps the divide between...

Author: By Victoria D. Sung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: East-West Face Fashion Fissure | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

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