Word: plug
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Those who rose early yesterday morning might have seen an '88 "plug," hat on the classic head of John Harvard...
FOUND-On a North avenue car, a silk skull cap, dropped by an '88 man in his struggle to save his plug hat. Apply at Leavitt and Peirce...
...Harvard torchlight parade, like Minerva, appears not to have been a thing of slow development and growth. It was born in full panoply of plug hat, black bottle, and a uniform that was unique in political demonstrations...
...reported that a company is to be formed from some of the larger private schools in Boston, such as Hopkinson's and Noble's to march in the procession tomorrow night. Their uniform is to be a white gown, with a tall "plug" hat in imitation of the collegians...
...hats. In past years Harvard men have always worn ply hats. These have been the distinctive mark of students in the procession, and this year, also, the tall hat forms a part of the class uniforms. I am very strongly in favor of having the drum corps wear plug hats also. Every one of us, I think, wants to march as a Harvard man distinctly, and this distinction should be shown in some striking way in our uniform. There is no better way to do this than by wearing the old traditional "plug hat." I see no reason why some...