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There is, however, an old custom which years back was supplanted by an innovation, and if it chooses the class of '76 can restore, as well as keep up, old customs. On this day, on which we display ourselves as "liberally educated young men," and aunts and cousins, young and old, come to gaze with wondering eyes upon us, we appear in a dress by no means appropriate to the occasion. No blessing was ever conferred upon man equal to that which prescribed the form of dress which he should wear at evening. A morning coat can be of many...
...place for a class to appear in evening dress at nine o'clock in the morning on Class Day or any other day, as it would be for them to appear at a ball in reefers. The dress of the undergraduate upon occasions is a black gown and a college-cap, profanely called a "mortar-board." This costume was formerly worn here, and as we retain foolish customs because they are old, I should like to hear some logician explain the chain of reasoning which leads us to reject a custom both old and sensible...
...Western college paper, objection made to obliging a class to appear on a certain occasion in dress-suits, that the class in question would have to purchase a suit for which they would have no use afterwards. This objection may be made against our returning to the old Class-Day costume; but it should have little force, for it need cost no man more than eight dollars to dress himself properly on his Class Day. I earnestly hope that the matter will be seriously considered, and that on the 23d of June the Senior class will appear in the conventional...
...played in New Haven, the second in Cambridge, and the third in Springfield. The misunderstanding which caused the Record to speak of us in terms more forcible than polite resulted from the fact that the two Nines in fixing the time for the match found difficulty in finding three days which would be equally convenient for both sides, and also from the fact that our Nine suggested at first that the third game might be played in Saratoga. Yale declined the proposition in regard to Saratoga, and our Nine immediately dropped the matter. Springfield is agreed upon as the place...
...entertaining was the account of this Promenade, that we have scarce space enough left to do justice to the "Banger Rush," described on the next page. The "Banger Rush" was caused by the fact that "although it was twelve days before the customary time for Freshmen canes to be seen on the street, several members of '79 swung out last Wednesday with the offensive article of furniture." A fight took place between the Sophomores and Freshmen under the windows of the New Haven House, and was viewed with interest by the "ladies" of that hostelry. The college authorities inconsiderately interfered...