Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...young women of the sophomore class of the Wisconsin State University have determined to wear mortar-board hats. It would be a great improvement upon the "cart-wheel." - [Graphic...
...other day I was in Boston, and saw a funny-looking creature with a "mortar-box," I believe it's called, walking the street. At first I thought it was a Chinaman, or belonged to the Humpty Dumpty Troupe, but my cousin said that he was connected with the Tuft's Soda Fountain Manufacturing Company. At present I am very much occupied, for I am taking painting and drawing lessons, have a dancing master, take piano and singing lessons, go to riding and swimming schools, have a lady teacher for French and German, and a love of a gentleman teacher...
...romantic name of Tufts, which, we learn, is situated somewhere in the outskirts of Boston. In our edition of last Tuesday we referred to a 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...
...Both mortar-boards...
...many of the college journals of last term we saw the statement that "Oxford caps are worn at Williams." True, the "mortar-board" craze had its run here; but as is general in such cases, soon died out. The idea originated in the present junior class, followed immediately by the sophomores. The caps were worn generally during the third term of last year, and somewhat the first of this year; but as winter came on the last of them were quickly called in, and all are now probably consigned to the shelf to remain peacefully among the memorabilia of college...