Word: mortars
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...Oberlin Review hopes that the faculty will not interfere with the ladies who wear the mortar-boards...
About every Saturday afternoon a small band of men, presumably students, furnish amusement for the public by walking down Washington street wearing those hideous things called mortar-boards. They cause more comment than our Chinese professor in his gorgeous holiday attire. We wish that for the sake of the good name of Harvard they would label themselves, so that even the mistaken few would not think they came from Cambridge...
...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...
...wall of stiffness lose its mortar...