Article: Undergrads With Pirate Leanings - New York Times

IN the display windows of Rugby, the new Ralph Lauren outpost on University Place, there is a framed photograph of the Styvechale Hockey Club. The year is 1906, as noted in the inky script, and the young men are dressed in the athletic flannel typical of the period and region. (Styvechale is in Coventry, England.) Their faces fix on the camera: One young man sits ramrod straight, as if he knows his mother is going to hang this photograph on the wall. Another looks slightly hung over, his eyes dimmed. Another wears a walrus mustache, his chin thrust forward, defiant and eager. Their minds may have been elsewhere, but I feel safe in betting that none of the men in the photograph - not young ...

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