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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...small band of men, presumably students, who were in the habit of amusing the public every week by walking down Washington street wearing the mortar-board, an English custom aped by some of our smaller American colleges, presumably for the purpose of giving them a somewhat "Englishy" look. A Tufts correspondent of the Boston Post, yesterday, gave his college away by fathering these mortarboards. The representative of this distinguished institution gives vent to his wounded feelings in the following letter to the Post, which we republish in full, for the amusement of our readers...
...that a man? No! that is not a man, that is an aesthete. What has he in his hand? He has a lily in his hand. Will the lily die? Yes, the lily will. Poor lily! Why does he look so wild at the horse-car? Of course he looks wild at the horse-car, for he is Oscar Wilde. - [News Primer...
...tables instead of returning it to its proper place. This is the source of the greatest annoyance to many other men who wish to refer to the same book. It is often almost impossible to learn whether a particular book is in the library or not. One has to look over numerous piles of books on the different tables, often disturbing other men. In this way, much time is often lost. At five o'clock, when many men come in after books to take out for the night it often is so dark that it is almost impossible to distinguish...
...Does he look...
...right; why does he look happy...