Word: long
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...most conscientious among the members of the Faculty have long deplored the various styles of clothing worn by students. Many professors claim that they are too much confused by the diversity of costumes to be able to do full justice to the lectures. And indeed their aesthetic eye is only too apt to be offended. Here is a man with a high collar; there, another with a low; then there are students with square cuffs, and round cuffs, and no cuffs at all. One persists in parting his hair on the side; another, in parting it in the middle. Indeed...
...intended that every student shall have the privilege of clothing himself there, but no student is to be compelled to do so; only, any one who does not wear the college costume will not be regarded as a student. The regulation coat consists of red serge, cut in long-tailed frock pattern, and having on the back, in large gold lines, the inevitable shield of the University, with "In Vino Veritas" plainly stamped thereupon. The waistcoat is of white flannel, buttoning behind, without watch-pockets. A narrow yellow braid will run around the collar, - yellow being emblematical of humility...
...Herald, by copying a letter from a Virginia paper, has added another to its long list of misrepresentations of Harvard life...
Miss Flyrte. - Why, of course. I know you won't be cross. And mayn't I wait till one o'clock, so we can have a real, nice, long talk? Say yes, like a dear...
...money by letting rooms for a price which it can get than by keeping them vacant at a price which it cannot get? With the best interests of the College at heart, we are sincerely glad that these rooms are vacant, and hope that they will continue so as long as the present unjust and unwise policy of high prices is continued...