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...skull practice yesterday afternoon, Head Coach Fisher discussed the mistakes that were made last Saturday in the University of Maine game. Three men were not present. Tolbert is out with a slightly injured hip and Havemeyer has a bruised instep. Both are expected to be in condition Wednesday. Johnson's broken finger has been bandaged and he may be back in four or five days. The squad was strengthened by the return of Rosece Fitts, Jack Crocker, Louis Brown and Sedgwick...
...second eleven battled without scoring in the first quarter-hour of a 50-minute scrimmage, but Coach Fisher's substitutes crossed the black goal line twice for the only score in the later part of the daily tussle on Soldiers Field. There was the usual program of "skull practice," rudimentary drill, and signal practice before the actual scrimmaging began...
...ceremonies consist of the forty-five present members of the senior societies, Skull and Bones, Scroll & Key, and Wolf's Head, appearing one by one on the campus and every one slapping a member of the present junior class as a token of his election, ordering him to go to his room, where he is formally notified of his election in private. --Boston Transcript...
...Haven, Conn., May 15.--As a result of the annual Tap Day, the following men have been elected to the Senior Societies at Yale. Skull and Bones: DeForest Van Slyck, James McHenry, Joseph Weir Sargent, L. G. Adams, Daniel R. Winter, Henry R. Luce, John M. Hincks, Harry P. Davison, Theodore L. Safford, Morehead Patterson, Briton Hadden, Alfred C. Schermerhorn, Frank P. Hefflefinger, Francis T. Hobson, and David L. Ingalls...
...that time all people wore loose flowing robes. The black color is merely an adaptation of the monastic habit. Similarly, the skull caps worn by ecclesiastics to protect their tonsored heads were copied by the educational institutions, and by them, as by the Church, were preserved after they had been elsewhere discarded. The round caps first became peaker, then, the peak degenerated to a tassel. Square cloth caps were introduced by the University of Paris. The two types seem to have been combined in the modern head dress used at graduation...