Word: slouching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...uniforms have already caused a change in habits and posture of the men wearing them. The traditional undergraduate indifference to the niceties of dress has been hidden beneath the smartness of olive-drab. The traditional undergraduate slouch is ironed straight in the square-shouldered cut of the military blouse. Clothing which is made to be worn well makes a man stand well. And when a man stands well, he is apt to to think well of himself, and of that service which he represents...
...Brown, in his interesting article "Is there a Harvard Slouch" proves, we suppose, to the immense satisfaction of the narrow-minded anti-Harvard group that such a thing indeed exists! Quite astonishing, but the figures are there. Perhaps, however, the R. O. T. C. will help the situation...