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Collins and Fairbanks, hatters, have a large stock of old "plug" hats for campaign purposes, which they are selling at 30 cents each. Call and choose. Letters painted to order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 10/18/1884 | See Source »

Students, including freshmen, are expected to wear "plug" hats, which will be furnished at reduced rates, at a time and place to be announced hereafter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Torchlight Procession. | 10/15/1884 | See Source »

...publicity of the event. At about ten o'clock one evening last week the Columbia sophomores, assisted by the juniors, some three hundred in all, assembled in front of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Each man was arrayed in a uniform costume of a long white gown and white "plug" hat and carried a torch. As soon as the collegians had all gathered at the hotel a procession was formed, which marched up Fifth avenue and thence to the grounds of the college. In their midst was carried an effigy representing Legendre, the mathematician. Every now and then when the spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAPPY COLUMBIA SOPHOMORES. | 6/10/1884 | See Source »

...fight over the bowl had meanwhile gone on. The freshmen raised the bowl over the Thirty-fourth street fire-plug to break it. The fire-plug broke under the heavy blows from the bowl. Finally, tired and soaked, the freshmen claimed the bowl by possession, and triumphantly carried it across the campus into the building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS AND POLICEMEN. | 2/5/1884 | See Source »

...Some are plug-geed and some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 10/17/1883 | See Source »

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