Word: mortars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Oberlin Review hopes that the faculty will not interfere with the ladies who wear the mortar-boards...
...attempt to introduce the mortar-board at Cornell has proved a failure. Although exchanges occasionally break out with the declaration that "the Oxford cap is worn at Cornell," it is not worn here nor has it been this year. - [Cornell...
PROVIDENCE, Jan. 10, 1882. A vigorous effort was made during the first part of the college year to introduce the Oxford hat. Papers were circulated among the classes, and about two-thirds of confidents agreed to wear them. It's due time the "mortar boards" were obtained, and for a few weeks Providence assumed a very classical air, but with the advent of colder weather the hats were delegated to the shelf, and there they now rest. It is not likely that they will ever come down again...