Word: flannels
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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WORDSWORTH.AUGUST 24, 1873. - Started at 9 A. M. Meant to start at 4. Companion, - athletic Freshman. Equipment, - old hats, flannel shirts, double-decked boots, six-foot staves, knapsacks (twenty pounds each), one saucepan, and two tin cups. (We had a little brandy, three pints.) Destination, - unknown. Walked twenty miles before dinner. Weather rather debilitating. Took a little brandy. At 12 M. saw pretty girl blowing dinner-horn at door of farm-house. Stopped for dinner. Dinner bad. Girl pleasant. Freshman asked for lock of her hair. Started again at 1.30. Walked twenty miles. Startled female peasant takes us for brigands...
...cent, or thereabouts, the privilege of voluntary attendance at recitations. We speak with the highest possible respect for the men who head our rank-lists, when we call this a throwing of pearls before swine. We regard such a course, as the elder Mr. Weller did the sending of flannel "veskits" to the young niggers who would have no possible use for them. But this extravagant waste of unappreciated cuts will be the only step taken, if any, in this particular...
Under the title of "Keep Warm," some useful hints are given on the requisite quantity and quality of winter underclothing, which, viewed from a practical point of view, strike us as the best we have ever seen. In a most pleasing style are the virtues of flannel and merino set forth, and the advantages of these two fabrics in various articles of apparel carefully detailed. We sincerely congratulate the fair Vassarites on that immunity from colds which Dr. Sanataire's bountiful flannel prescriptions, if regarded, must secure them...