Word: guileless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...woman's gown--hence the Mother Hubbard shape, and the cut of a sweet girl graduate on the maker's advertisement. Now nobody minds whether the Senior wears his sister's insignia or not; it is funny, but harmless. But when the 1916 Class Committee solemnly asserts that this guileless travesty is one of the oldest traditions of Harvard, it is time for a protest in the name of our motto. There was a remote epoch in which academic dress was regularly and correctly worn, but throughout the greater part of the nineteenth century the Harvard Senior wore ordinary clothes...