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...college and on Class Day they are almost universally worn by the class holding the celebration, and by the orators always. Also in other college affairs the men who have parts, and the marshals, committee-men, etc., are obliged to wear them, but the rest of the students follow their own inclinations in the matter. On Commencement Day, however, the wearing of gowns is obligatory. By no means do all the students own gowns, but the majority, when occasion demands, hire them from the janitor, who always keeps them on hand, the charge therefor being $1.50 apiece. It seems...
Possibly it costs no more in college now than it did in '60, but the figures certainly show that more is spent now than was spent then. But this point may be cleared up, for more articles on the same subject are to follow. The subject is one of interest, and these investigations have a decided value...
...before. It is unfortunate that the new scheme could not have been arranged so that the pipers would have been paid out of the pockets of the dancers. This was almost impossible, and we who have not traded in rooms must suffer, with those who have, the consequences which follow that traffic...
...right direction. It certainly has detracted very much from the pleasure and dignity of Class Day and Commencement that this step has not been adopted before. Now, to revive a rather antiquated subject, we should consider it a second step in the right direction if the students should follow the good example of those from whom they have derived so much benefit, and do the same thing. It would be much less expensive and, as it seems to us, much more picturesque. At Columbia, in the exhibitions given by the "Philolexism," a literary society, the orators and members appear...
...follow the plan...