Word: weskit
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...form of an antique vestement has been accumulating momentum for several years and may soon be de rigeur. This is the weskit, a gaily decorated reincarnation of the banker's vest. The most popular of these is the tattersal (alternately colored narrow, criss-cross lines). Solid colors are definitely in dis-favor...
...graduating students. Dr. Conant delivered his farewell commencement address: speaking as U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, he expressed the conviction that the European Defense Community would become a reality within a few months. Dr. Pusey, president of Lawrence College, sat with his class of '28, wore the crimson weskit that was the class uniform, but soberly eschewed the blue-and-white class cap. Pusey's class earmarked $10,000 of its $270,000 contributions for a James Bryant Conant-Class of 1928 Scholarship to be awarded "from time to time" either to a foreign student to be brought...