Word: tiling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...class day each year, the senior class arrays itself in all its purple, and fine linen, and bids a gay farewell to its many friends. A whirl of pretty faces, a dance, a song-and the class day comes to an end, and the class, doffing its new tile, goes out into the world to take its stand by the side of those who have gone before. It goes surrounded by all the memories and traditions of the college, and cheered with the hearty "God-speed" of those who remain behind...
...rainy days that are so common in Cambridge, one is obliged either to keep on the flagging, and go ankle deep in water, or step off the path and flounder ankle deep in mud. Now the expenditure of ten dollars would right this state of things: a small tile pipe would remedy the first defect, and a few hours labor straightening the stones would remedy the second. Let us hope that the authorities who are so eager that we shall tread in straight paths, will at least make them easy for our weary feet as possible...
...been beaten by a Harvard freshman team since the fall of 1881, Last year, and the year before, our teams returned with doleful tales of defeat, attributing their ill success to one cause or another, and making vigorous complaints about playing in a "brick-yard," the somewhat harsh tile they gave to the Andover foot ball field. From this it will be seen that Eighty-Eight has no easy task before her, and that, while only the sharpest of work can win a victory for the class, yet that victory will be one to remember with pride...
...performance of "Esmeralda" at the Madison Square tomorrow night, each patron will be given a handsome tile designed by Vedder...