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...view of the letter of "Senior" and of your editorial comments, it may be well to state that the cap is never worn inside buildings at Oxford by any save the three highest officers of the University, viz: the Vice-Chancellor and the two Proctors. At the Commemoration ceremonies in the Sheldonian Theatre, - which correspond in their general character to our Commencement exercises in Sanders Theatre, - the Vice-Chancellor and two Proctors alone are covered, and raise their caps ceremoniously when the formal leave of the "domini doctores" and "magistri" is asked to various measures. The cap used, indeed...
...loves congruities, and as a member of the graduating class, the writer would vigorously protest against the cap being separated from the gown. Surely those who witnessed the class day exercises of last year could not fail in being struck with the incongrity of the action when the seniors removed their caps in entering the auditorium of Sanders Theatre. It jarred a little upon ones sense of fitness. The cap, indeed, is not a hat to be removed during exercises but on the contrary to be worn. In Cambridge and Oxford its place is thus understood. The unique effect...
...point raised by a writer in today's CRIMSON in regard to removing the cap in such places as Appleton Chapel and Sanders Theatre is well worth noticing. We have here at Harvard adopted the classic cap and gown as an appropriate garb for the graduating class. It is, then, only consistent to include the etiquette which governs its use in those institutions where it owes its origin. The custom here is so new that we need not feel bound to continue in the lines followed by other classes. A simple word of direction from the Class Day Committee will...
...fine graded according to the gravity of the offence will admit the tardy student even after this late hour. This regulation and one forbidding students to walk up the river in the morning, and another for bidding students to walk on "The High" in study hours, without cap and gown are relics of the old system of police regulations which used to exist in all colleges and universities in olden times. These last two regulations are what we might call dead letters on the Oxford statue book; no observance is paid them. They are good examples of a certain class...
...Cap and Gown; Some College Verse" chosen by J. L. Harrison. Published by Joseph Knight Company, Boston...