A time and place for tweed

Put on before leaving your room at Yale.

{As a Yale freshman Calvin} Trillin showed up in New Haven {in 1953} in awe. “People looked like they had costumes on — tweedy sports coats, patches on the elbows. I’d never seen things like that.’’ And of course, he saw men’s costumes because the faculty was certainly a male bastion and so was the student body. In those days, Yale was not a study in diversity.’’

— From Lary Bloom, in “A Yale Education,’’ in the March 22, 1998 Hartford Courant.