hoyatables
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Post by hoyatables on Feb 22, 2010 10:22:28 GMT -5
I heard a rumor once that there was a secret society at Georgetown, allegedly dedicated to service and tradition, but whose members were actually just a bunch of self-important LNS types who never really did anything of note. Obviously hogwash. Rumor has it they once installed a plaque on campus commemorating their self-importance. But you can't find it anymore, so it is just a rumor.
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Post by laidbackcoach on Feb 22, 2010 11:39:56 GMT -5
I met my wife in New South when I was a resident asst and she was a frosh. Perhaps I can now start telling everyone I met my wife when we were both in the same prison. I never heard that rumor before.
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Post by doublehoya on Feb 22, 2010 11:52:09 GMT -5
I've heard the New South/prison story for years, but have never heard confirmation of it; hence, a rumor! I've also heard it was specifically the plans for a Montana state prison. This was discussed earlier and it is an urban legend, as are the stories about the haunted 5th floor of Healy, that Harbin Hall is sinking, or that the Congress met at Gaston Hall when the Capitol was occupied by the British in the War of 1812 (which would have been highly unlikely as Healy wasn't built until 1877).--AdminDon't forget that the tunnels which run from underneath campus down to the Potomac were used to spirit away important documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution during the Civil War. We used to go tunnel hunting when I was an undergrad (92-96) -- found one that connected one of the big Reiss lecture halls to the Hospital. It was full of Water in 55 gallon drums and old radio equipment -- presumably an old bomb shelter. We thought we were pretty damn cool when we found it.
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Post by rosslynhoya on Feb 22, 2010 12:01:56 GMT -5
There was an unfinished sub-basement, I'd go so far as to call them catacombs, with tunnels leading away from the old Alumni House at 36th and O. Amongst the other junk, religious statuary, etc., we found an old-timey card catalog from the analog era, in which index cards collected from graduating seniors indicated their forwarding address (Mom and Dad's house, for the most part, some things never change) and their immediate career plans.... Pat Buchanan's card said that he was going to work for a newspaper in St Louis; Bill Clinton gave his mom's address in Arkansas for the summer and said he was going to Oxford in the fall.
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Post by Boz on Feb 22, 2010 12:05:26 GMT -5
I met my wife in New South when I was a resident asst and she was a frosh. Perhaps I can now start telling everyone I met my wife when we were both in the same prison. I never heard that rumor before. Blatant abuse of power and authority. Shame on you. ;D
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Post by strummer8526 on Feb 22, 2010 12:05:27 GMT -5
There was an unfinished sub-basement, I'd go so far as to call them catacombs, with tunnels leading away from the old Alumni House at 36th and O. Amongst the other junk, religious statuary, etc., we found an old-timey card catalog from the analog era, in which index cards collected from graduating seniors indicated their forwarding address (Mom and Dad's house, for the most part, some things never change) and their immediate career plans.... Pat Buchanan's card said that he was going to work for a newspaper in St Louis; Bill Clinton gave his mom's address in Arkansas for the summer and said he was going to Oxford in the fall. That's actually one of the coolest stories I've ever heard. I only went in the tunnels once, and we were using cell phones as flashlights, so we didn't get very far.
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Post by TC on Feb 22, 2010 12:09:38 GMT -5
We used to go tunnel hunting when I was an undergrad (92-96) -- found one that connected one of the big Reiss lecture halls to the Hospital. It was full of Water in 55 gallon drums and old radio equipment -- presumably an old bomb shelter. We thought we were pretty damn cool when we found it. Are you sure this was a tunnel and not WGTB headquarters at the time?
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Post by SSHoya on Feb 22, 2010 12:24:46 GMT -5
WGTB wouldn't be stockpiling water, if you know what I mean . . .
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Post by lichoya68 on Feb 22, 2010 12:26:54 GMT -5
and then there was the rumor that william gaston was the first graduate of georgetown NOT figure it out GO HOYAS BEAT THE VILLE VERY VERY VERY IMPORTANT
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Post by hifigator on Feb 22, 2010 12:48:55 GMT -5
Georgetown rumors only. Thanks for playing though.
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Post by hoyaalf on Feb 22, 2010 13:03:39 GMT -5
I've heard the New South/prison story for years, but have never heard confirmation of it; hence, a rumor! I've also heard it was specifically the plans for a Montana state prison. This was discussed earlier and it is an urban legend, as are the stories about the haunted 5th floor of Healy, that Harbin Hall is sinking, or that the Congress met at Gaston Hall when the Capitol was occupied by the British in the War of 1812 (which would have been highly unlikely as Healy wasn't built until 1877).--AdminThat ghost on Fifth Healey was a foreign student who hanged himself during the holidays out of pure lonliness in the late 'fifties. He wrote a paper for me once.
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Post by SFHoya99 on Feb 22, 2010 13:05:01 GMT -5
The student or the ghost?
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Post by EasyEd on Feb 22, 2010 13:14:09 GMT -5
Rumor that Georgetown had a football team that played in the Orange Bowl; and another that played in the Sun Bowl; and had a game with BC that was labeled the best game in college football history.
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Post by hoyarooter on Feb 22, 2010 13:27:17 GMT -5
LMAO at the prison rumor. Having had the "pleasure" of living in New South my freshman year, I now much better understand it's uh, err, sterility. OTOH, there aren't many prisons where you can walk out of the window of your cell, err, room to sun bathe on the roof or enter another prisoner's cell, err room.
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Post by wrestlemania on Feb 22, 2010 13:51:11 GMT -5
Commencement speakers were usually fertile ground: J.D. Salinger, Peter Fonda, Gloria Steinem, Marion Barry, Frank Howard, Dave Butz, Cher . . .
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Post by nodak89 on Feb 22, 2010 13:56:29 GMT -5
Commencement speakers were usually fertile ground: J.D. Salinger, Peter Fonda, Gloria Steinem, Marion Barry, Frank Howard, Dave Butz, Cher . . . ...The Pope in 1989
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Post by SSHoya on Feb 22, 2010 13:57:48 GMT -5
easyed:
# 1941- Georgetown falls to Mississippi State 14-7 in the 1941 Orange Bowl. Ten members of this Georgetown team would go on to play in the NFL. # 1943-Varsity play is suspended for three years due to World War II. # 1945- Al Blozis, the greatest player in Georgetown football history, is killed in battle during the last months of World War II. # 1950- Georgetown is invited to the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, falling to Texas Western (now Texas-El Paso) 33-20.
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Post by prhoya on Feb 22, 2010 14:00:10 GMT -5
Dick Vitale at that year's McD AA game: "Greg Paulus will be a ssssspppppecial player for Duke. He's a PTPer."
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Post by SSHoya on Feb 22, 2010 14:01:26 GMT -5
Anyone ever hear the rumor that John Thompson Jr. was going to run for mayor of DC when DC was in the depths of the various Marion Barry scandals in the early 1990s?
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Post by nodak89 on Feb 22, 2010 14:03:50 GMT -5
I also seem to recall in the late 80's that the Healy Tower clockhands were swiped (definitely true), but that the rumor was they were mailed the White House.
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