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HIS article does not deal with Pruss’s wardrobe. To be sure, once at a President’s
reception I hailed five of her gowns before finding her. Moreover, evening dresses
play an important part in college life. Before a formal meeting of the English Club,
H. P. always takes a solitary walk with at least two other members to discuss the arrange-
ment of the nine on the Rock window-seat with regard to esthetic values. That was a
serious consideration this winter owing to the fact that the Senior costumes de bal were all
different shades of the same color, a point which the President noted when she remarked
to me in one of the long reflective silences that fall upon hostesses and guests at a Faculty
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“T should think that at least 68 per cent of this year’s Senior Class have pink dresses.”
Directoire and hobble, sheath skirt and coal-scuttle hat, were duly recognised by 1911.
Freshman Class Supper witnessed the trailing of first trains by conscious maidens. (I
still remember my jealousy and mortification on that occasion. My first train did not appear
until Sophomore year.)
But décolleté finery is not intrinsically collegiate. Therefore let us pass it by.
