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"Assumptionites" and Cross-Border Connections with Detroit
There are several noteworthy features in this excerpt.
First, notice the term "Assumptionites" referring to Assumption Alumni.
This excerpt is also testament to the many connections between Assumption College and Archdiocese of Detroit, for many…
First, notice the term "Assumptionites" referring to Assumption Alumni.
This excerpt is also testament to the many connections between Assumption College and Archdiocese of Detroit, for many…
"Basketeers" team of Assumption College, 1925
Accompanied by pictures of the 1925 team this headline refers to basketball players as "basketeers", now a seemingly obsolete term. Along with "cage" for basketball this is another example of how language changes over time.
Tags: Assumption College, Basketball, Basketeer, Sports
"Cage Game"
This article about an Assumption College basketball game refers to basketball as "cage" in the headline. Basketball used to be called thus because it was often played with chain-link fence around the court.
Tags: Assumption College, Basketball, Cage, Sports
"Discipuli Totagi"
This 1914 picture by Bill Kolb, printed in 1927, shows the discipuli totagi at 12:30AM. It seems they were breaking rules for the accompanying article describes them as evading those in charge of discipline. The article demonstrates the attention…
Tags: discipuli togati, Latin
"Electric Cabinet" for ice-cream
This 1926 advertisement from Young's Drug Store describes its ice-cream as being stored in a "Nizer Electric Cabinet". In modern terminology that is a refrigerator.
Tags: Advertisement, electric cabinet
"Hockey and Skating Shoes"
This typical advertisement in Purple and White includes one phrase not currently in use, that being "Hockey and Skating Shoes", in other words, skates. In other advertisements skates were also referred to as "hockey boots". This is yet another…
Tags: Advertisement, hockey shoes, shoes, skating shoes
"The Dominion" of Canada
The fifth line of this article about the basketball team describes opponents as "the best in the Dominion", that is, the Dominion of Canada. Throughout the early publications of "Purple and White" Canada is quite often referred to as "the Dominion",…
Tags: Basketball, Cage, Dominion, Sports
"The Right Idea"
Two students lace up and skate to class when ice covered the campus sidewalks "like a blanket of angel hair".
ACS Football
One of the photographs is of an actual football game which took place in November of 1949. The second photograph is a group of Assumption College fans in the stands at football game in the month.
Tags: Extra Cirricular, Football, Game, Sports, St. Denis
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Windsor Police Department Organizational Chart, 1961
The breakdown of the Windsor Police Department's different divisions in 1961