Iron County Record | 1904-09-10 | Page 2 | Destiny in Waistcoat

DESTINY IN WAISTCOAT. Tho easy-going Harvard undergrade uato, left to himself on questions of dress, will not understand tho misery of his counterpart at Oxford. When tho exam, period approached a week or so ago, thoso in powor Issued an edict prescribing tho dress to bo worn I In tho examination-room to include a I blnck coat and a black waistcoat, in addition to tho whito tio and tho gown. Tho British public itself -wnB appalled at such puritan severity. It was the black waistcoat, a thing that all civilization Is allowed to doff In summer, thnt Incited robolllon. Why, a man's chances In llfo might bo Impaired Im-paired becauso tho warmth of a waist- coat, gratuitously Imposed upon him, provented him from doing full justlco to his vlows on tho synthotlc unity of appreciation! It might ruin a state Boston Transcript.