Word: dish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Promptly some Freshman, staring fixedly at the gallery, starts tapping on a dish. This is taken up all over the hall and is accompanied by cheers. The performance is repeated as each new person arrives, until when the Hall is filled, the uproar is general, loud and continuous. The staring is not only extremely rude, but very embarrassing for any one subjected to it, and the noise and tapping is silly and cheap...
...presented the Peabody Museum with three clay vessels, valuable relics of the Indian mound-builders of Alabama. Mr. Moore personally conducted excavations at Bear Point, Baldwin county, Alabama, and found these vessels of extreme value in showing the skilful workmanship of the Indians. There is a black clay dish fourteen inches in diameter, a plate of the same material, ten inches in diameter and a small vase moulded from clay. All are broken into fragments which will be put together at the Museum...