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Chartering a New Course in Statutory Interpretation: A Commentary on Richard Ekins\u27 the Nature of Legislative Intent
Peculiar Habits: Academic Costumes at Princeton University
Six years after its founding as colonial Americaâs fourth college in 1746, Princeton prescribed a design for ârobesâ to be worn by the president and âas many of [the students] as shall see fit ⊠.â Perhaps not many students actually saw fit to wear them, for, in 1755, the trustees voted to require that âall students except freshmen be obliged to appear in Habitsâ. They recanted just three years later, and revoked the requirement that the students âwear peculiar Habitsâ, thus beginning the Universityâs own peculiar, nearly 300-year habit of continually revising its approach to academic garb. [Excerpt]