Word: insignia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...CRIMSON was represented by no distinct costume, but by the respective class uniforms of the editors, with the added distinction of a white sash over the shoulder, and a few insignia of the trade as shown in our initial letter above...
...beer, when, on a sudden your meditations are rudely dispersed and your thoughts brought to earth again. Looking up, you find you have brushed against a man who appears for all the world like a battered veteran of the wars, but whom, by his cap, dress, spectacles and other insignia, you recognize at length as a German student. His face is scarred and seamed, it may be that part og one ear is gone ; certainly his appearance is redoubtable. The apology which rose to your lips, however, dies away unuttered when you notice his insolent stare and catch the words...
Class feeling has become quite marked lately at De Pauw University, Indiana. It began by the seniors adopting high hats as the insignia of their class.-These were promptly stolen by the sophomores, who had their pictures taken in them. The other evening, during the progress of a sophomore performance, a number of freshmen entered the hall with large paper sacks inflated and labeled "sophomore wind." After waiting to hear three or four speeches they started to leave the hall. Dr. Ridpath who was presiding endeavored to stop them by locking the doors, but the freshmen burst them open...
...Secret societies are an anomalous feature in American college life. A student from Oxford or Paris who visits one of our colleges is surprised to find many of the students decorated with breast-pins, inscribed with Greek characters. These insignia are sometimes wrought in strange forms, such, perhaps, as Anchorites of old kept in view to remind them of death and the grave. On being informed that these ornaments, with their strange devices, are badges of secret fraternities of a social or literary character, the foreigner is curious to inquire into the nature of the secrets which are so carefully...
...eldest son, - who was dressed in a white Chinese suit, - a mandarin, Rev. Dr. Holland, and a few friends. The remains were enclosed in a casket, on top of which were placed his mandarin hat and a necklace of beads of a peculiar kind, which was the insignia of his rank in China. The exercises commenced with the singing of a German funeral song by a choir of students. Prof. C. C. Everett then made remarks, an abstract of which we give: We gather to pay the last sad offices of the church to one who was proud to hold...