Word: drab
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Today is Cap and Gown Day! Once again, after two drab, monotonous years of khaki, the Senior class blossoms forth in impressive robes of funeral and scholarly hue. As of yore, the Yard will welcome those venerable togas smacking of mysterious classical antiquity as well as the geometric head gear suggestive of profound and learned erudition in the occult mysteries of oblate spheroids and tangent planes...
...Secondly it is important to note that the advent of the Artillery School will in no way disrupt the progress of courses in the University through conflicts, inasmuch as the drills which have, in the past, come at most inopportune hours and necessitated constant changing from mufti to olive drab and back again, have now been relegated to the summer camps...
...Service Uniform: 1. Service cap. 2. Service coat (OD Wool). 3. Service breeches (O.D.W.). 4. Russet leather shoes. 5. Leggings (for tactical instructors, other instructors with relative rank, aides and cadet captains: russet leather or pig skin. For all cadets other than cadet captains: canvas, as issued). 6. Olive drab shirt. (When not under arms, or on other duty involving physical exertion a plain white standing collar may be worn). 7. Poncho during inclement weather only. 8. Sabres will be worn by tactical instructors at formations under arms...
...badges, medals or ornaments except those prescribed in General Orders 49 (1916) of the War Department will be worn. (b) The distinctive badge for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps is worn on the upper part of the left forearm of both the service coat and the olive drab shirt. The design is embroidered in blue on olive drab cloth of the shape and dimensions prescribed by the War Department. This badge will be worn by all members of the Corps. (c) The cap ornament is a bronze wreath with the letters R.O.T.C. in center. (d) The collar ornament for coat...
Ultimately the provisional companies will be made companies I, K, L, and M of the third battalion. Uniforms are being issued to the men as fast as possible, and it is expected that the entire Corps will be in olive drab by the end of the week. In order that this third battalion may be of full strength enlistments of qualified men from other colleges will be accepted until the end of the month...