Word: mortaring
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...representatives wore long red togas and black mortar-boards - the "toga virilis" of 1825. The men marched in order and decorum, and presented a fine appearance. The marshals led the procession on horseback, then followed the large body of the senior class, and then, on a dray, a special feature, very well gotten up, representing "Johnnie Harvard's Pa's." The basis for this display lay in the fact that the revered founder of our university boasted of three fathers - one bona fide father and two step-fathers; a butcher, a grocer and a cooper. In the centre...
...students of the college of the city of New York have decided to wear mortar-boards. The practice seems to be rapidly gaining ground among the smaller colleges...
EIGHTY-SEVEN. - Marshals, Messrs. Keyes, Brooks and F. S. Colidge. Red Togas and Black Mortar-Boards...
...faculty of the Medical School will wear red gowns and the mortar-boards at the alumni meeting on November...
...junior class at Cornell have decided to adopt the "mortar board" as a class hat, but with a distinctive colored tassel. Both of the upper classes having adopted these hats, the sophomores will wear the regulation tile and the freshmen the low black "cady." - Yale News...