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...most people today is simply May Day, but in the calendar of the class of 1914, it is marked in red letters, Cap and Gown Day. Today the Senior at a great saving in laundry bills, dons for the first time his regalia of dignified black, which will distinguish him from lesser folk. He gets it to set right on his shoulders, maneouvers the tassel till it does not dangle in his eye but caressingly tickles him just in front of the left ear, and thus arrayed in the scholastic armor, struts or strides proudly across the green but erupted...
...sooth, it is the beginning of the end. The cap and gown garb is a sort of cocoon from which the Senior will emerge as a very humble moth in June. But the cocoon days are happy ones, and rightly. The soberness of the robe signifies no corresponding gloom in the class; Nineteen-fourteen has not assumed black to mark its declining days. On the contrary, Nineteen-fourteen is just beginning to live. What with Junkets and picnics, and bright days and gay nights, cap and gown time will pass quickly and merrily. So, paraphrasing the advice given...
...Senior class picture will be taken in the rear of Memorial Hall next Tuesday at 1 o'clock. Every Senior must wear his cap and gown, and appear promptly...
...present time only 102 Seniors have been measured for caps and gowns. It is absolutely essential that every Senior have a cap and gown, and this is positively the last week to get measured for outfits at $4.25. After March 7 they will cost $4.75. No payments are required when the measurements are taken. 1914 CLASS DAY COMMITTEE...
Measurements may be made immediately at the Co-operative Society. To men measured before March 7 the price of the cap and gown will be $4.25. To men measured after that date the price will be $4.75. In order to facilitate the work of the Committee it is hoped that Seniors will be measured as soon as possible. Delivery is to be made about the end of April. 1914 CLASS DAY COMMITTEE...