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Girl graduates in England wear gowns precisely like those worn by University men, and made by the same tailor. At present they have only donned the B. A., or Bachelor of Arts robes, which is black and brown, and the B. S. C., or Bachelor of Science, which is yellow and black, but no doubt in turn they will attain to those of higher degree. - [Telgram.] If the gowns are becoming to the young ladies no doubt thousands of the sex will endeavor to attain a title just to see how they would look in the robes. This will make...
Albert Victor, son of the Prince of Wales, is now to be educated at Christ Church, Oxford. Like his uncle, Prince Leopold, he will wear cap and gown only on occasions where they are required by law, and even then he will discard the gold tassel on the cap and silk gown of the cut that distinguishes, or rather used to distinguish, the gentleman-commoner from the nobleman...
...avert the threatened calamity, but, whatever may be the result, the country owes unspeakable gratitude to the World for its bold exposure of the truth. The Alpha Delta Phi Society has hitherto been supposed to be a harmless college society, organized for the purpose of permitting its members to wear breast-pins of a peculiar form. Under its cloak of innocent breast-pins the society is nevertheless - as the World has discovered - endeavoring to make itself the ruling power of the nation, and its dangerous character can be readily perceived under the light of alleged publicity which the World...
...fill every office, State and Federal, with members of the society, and to put none but Alpha Delts in command, either in the army or the navy, and they can then seize the supreme power, and compel every man, woman and child to drink lemonade, eat oysters and wear outlandish breast-pins...
...question. He says: "The Lehigh Burr does not like it that 'flannel shirts' are so much affected by the students. Outside flannel shirts I guess it refers to, for of course undershirts of flannel are strictly proper. I agree though with the Burr that outside flannel shirts for regular wear scarcely become young gentlemen at college...