Life, letters and addresses of Aaron Friedenwald . yself before a mirror afterhaving crawled into the inside of the attire in question. Myfears were instantly confirmed; there was not much in it. I do not know who introduced the fashion originally; I aminclined to think that it was the product of a gradual the Cap and the Gown had quite different origins. Itis quite likely that, when bald heads were not quite as fash-ionable as now, some old college professor who decided to protectand perhaps conceal the inconvenient nakedness on the summit ofhis anatomy, originated the natu
Life, letters and addresses of Aaron Friedenwald . yself before a mirror afterhaving crawled into the inside of the attire in question. Myfears were instantly confirmed; there was not much in it. I do not know who introduced the fashion originally; I aminclined to think that it was the product of a gradual the Cap and the Gown had quite different origins. Itis quite likely that, when bald heads were not quite as fash-ionable as now, some old college professor who decided to protectand perhaps conceal the inconvenient nakedness on the summit ofhis anatomy, originated the natural skull cap, and imposed thestyle upon a long line of successors; finally one arose who triedto do something remarkable by standing before the world in anattitude a little different from that in which college professors ;. i| .f;[rujy,Trr-ir-TT>^t^Z^l AARON FRIEDENWALD iSoi «;OWN and I Che Cap > Buch a )nt8 me and 11 .,,„ T am on. It ? A\- • i. or ajAwn3a3mi mofiaa the 1Q?.\ i lied 1 in an which ^ 1ofessors. Addresses. 273 were wont to appear, and he thought he could make a great sen-sation by standing on his head, to facilitate which he resorted tothe patent mortar-board attachment. The next great discovery . . was made, no doubt, whensome other college professor found that the cap could be wornwithout standing on ones head. Things have been going on prettywell since that time, except on certain occasions when it becameexceedingly difficult to decide whether a professor was standingon his head or on his feet. So much for the probable early his-tory of the cap. But whence came the gown ? There is not the slightest difficultyin explaining that. It is fair to infer that in ancient timesthere were just as absent-minded professors as there are to-day,and it was a most natural accident that one of them should haveseized upon a Mother Hubbard hung upon a professor^s hook andput it on instead of an overcoat. The gracefulness of the combina-tion of
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