Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mortar-board and gown mania has again broken out. This time it is the freshman class at Cornell that is afflicted...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : It seems as though a more suitable place for making mortar for the new Law School could be found than the cellar under the south end of Hollis. It is anything but pleasant for those who have rooms in this building, particularly those directly over the cellar, to have dump carts constantly in front of their windows and to be awakened early in the morning by the talking and shouting of the drivers. Cannot this be remedied...
...desire to call the attention of the college authorities to a communication signed '83, which we give in another column, with reference to the use of one of the cellars of Hollis as a mortar-trough. Wishing to ascertain for ourselves the facts of the case, we visited the cellar in question, and found it filled with sand, troughs, tools of all kinds, and, in the centre, an immense hogshead filled with foul looking water...
...apart from the annoyance caused to the occupants of the building in the manner described by the communicant, it would seem that the dampness necessarily engendered by damp sand, mortar and stagnant water, would be very detrimental to the health of those occupying the rooms over the cellar. This in itself calls for an immediate abatement of the nuisance...
...Oxford the system of formal espionage by proctors over students in almost all their actions is still rigidly enforced. Dire are the consequences for the unluckly "undergrad." who is caught by these ever-watchful spies dressed in aught but traditional gown and mortar-board. Proctors, it is said, however, are easily avoided by the wary. It is less easy to avoid the "bull-dogs," as the body-servants of the proctors are called. But, says the London Graphic, "It has been darkly hinted that 'bull-dogs' are corruptible by gold, and even silver." But more curious than either proctors...