Word: caving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With sleet and examinations forcing continued cave dwelling the undergraduate, gazing at obscure texts and obscure days of the D.W. Griffith variety occasionally wonders both at the texts and the days. Aristotle has admitted that man is "a thinking being"--and the undergraduate--Mr. Mencken notwithstanding--is usually a man. So while the logs leap into flame or the tries to make them, his wonder becomes fused into a definite inquiry: why, after all, is he here, looking so very glum while the sun shines on other fields and making hay is so delightfully easy...
...hoped that he was present at the cave-in. One would like to hear what chills fluttered down his spine as he saw the strangely sagging ice, knowing what emptiness lurked below but not what quips might strike above. Perhaps like Napoleon at Ratisbon, he mused, "my plans to earth may fall" let yonder crevices sunder inches more...
...cave dwellers and aristocrats of Washington society might lift their lorgnets and sniff the air in silent protest at her capers, but, after all, wasn't she of their own, of a family than which there was none bluer blooded...
...Mouth Cave...
This society, under the direction of its secretary, Joseph B. Thoburn, exploring Big Mouth Cave, discovered a large number of bone tools and implements such as needles, awls, fishhooks, etc., as well as a number of articles made of stone. In some mounds excavated by the same party a number of pieces of pottery were found together with stone pipes, ear plugs that show evidence of having been covered with copper, and several copper ornaments. Is this not worthy of mention...