Word: rufflans
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...society. Therefore Harvard's problem, at least in part, has had to be one of fitting in with a changing world. Some of these changes are rather amusing. Take the Harvard College Law of 1655, for example: "Every scholler, everywhere shall weare modest and sober habit, without strange, rufflan-like or newfangled fashions; . . . neither shall it be Lawfull for any to weare Long Hair Locks or foretopps nor to use curling, crissing, parting, or powdering their Haire." The College authorities, though they might have been tempted by the crew hair cut to a modern corollary of this...
...arranging the details of the debate with Russell while in the cab, Dr. Durant displayed his fairness in stating. "No, I shall want no final rebuttal. If I were dealing with a rufflan, I should want one to lambaste my opponent, but I trust my friend, here...
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