Word: button
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...decided yesterday afternoon by the Senior button committee that designs should be obtained from several manufacturers for the class buttons. A simple device in blue and white, the class colors, probably containing the numeral "10" will be chosen very soon. The buttons, which are expected to cost about 25 cents each, will be put on sale shortly after the Christmas recess at Leavitt & Peirce's and at the Co-operative...
...thereby, but it has not returned out to be of great importance. The reason for this is that the Senate can amend bills of this nature, providing only that the article is not changed; or, as it has been aptly said, "the House has the power to touch the button and watch the Senate form a tariff bill...
...Senior class buttons have arrived at last. The Committee has chosen a design different from the conventional diamond of former years and the buttons are as nearly worthy of the term ornamental as they can be made, within the limit of an article of such moderate price. No matter how ornamental the button, it is of no value unless it is worn. There is a definite purpose in having the buttons and now that the Seniors have accepted that purpose as worth while let every man decorate himself with a button...
There was so much enthusiastic bombast delivered at the class meeting when the button question was discussed that the CRIMSON will not venture to bore the members of the class further with the advantageous and other aspects of the scheme. It brings to mind, however, another point which bears more vitally on the class than the mere buttons. In view of the occasional assertion that the class of 1909 has for various reasons never been as enthusiastic as a whole in class affairs as it should have been, it might be well for Seniors to wake up to this fact...
...accordance with the vote of the Senior class on October 28, the following men were appointed by the president, to constitute a committee to choose a design for the class button; R. G. Harwood, chairman, J. C. Bills, E. P. Burrill, E. T. Dana, H. W. Hines, and N. S. Simpkins. The committee has adopted a diamond-shaped button bearing the class colors in an original design of enamel. The buttons will be ready next week and will be put on sale at 25 cents each at Leavitt & Peirce's, where they may be obtained by all Seniors upon signing...