Comments on: Creepers gotta creep — for science

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:19:00 +0000

Is the center of the college the Campus Mawrtius?

By: jackbird

jackbird — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:02:00 +0000

The area was established as a colony by Welsh Quakers in the late 1600s. Hence local place names like Bala Cynwyd, Merion (from Merionethshire), Tredyffrin, Berwyn, etc., as well as many, many streets with an improbable number of Ls in their names.

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:16:00 +0000

How is it that they aren’t called Mawrtians?

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:14:00 +0000

Not really:

“Bryn Mawr College is a highly selective, private, women’s liberal arts college founded in 1885. The Graduate School has male and female graduates. It is named after the town of Bryn Mawr in which the campus is located, which had been named by a representative of the Pennsylvania Railroad who found the name in some old records.”

From wikipedia.

By: BookGuy

BookGuy — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:03:00 +0000

I’m just imagining the poor bastard who might have hid under my roommate’s bed just before said roommate went on a 36-hour video game binge, which included no breaks for sleeping or eating.

By: Geraint Jones

Geraint Jones — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:20:00 +0000

One of those rare times when I see a bit of Welsh on the internet, and subsequently find out that there is very little to do with Wales in the actual story.

I haven’t googled anything yet, but I assume “Big Hill” College has some Welsh history to speak of?

By: Nadreck

Nadreck — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:14:00 +0000

The same sort of thing continued into the 60s with that Prof. who was spying on surfer kids like Annette & Frankie in “Beach Party”.

By: agonist

agonist — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:12:00 +0000

I wear Creepers. Black suede. Classic shoe.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:09:00 +0000

:D Yes. But at least it’s Harriet the Spy.

By: nowimnothing

nowimnothing — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:04:00 +0000

Anyone else disappointed by the lack of minecraft news in this article?

By: Leaping Lemur

Leaping Lemur — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:49:00 +0000

It was a Bryn Mawr study, so at least it was ladies hiding under the student’s beds (the study was by Marie and Marian)….

Yeah. Seventy years later and I could still see this happening. Mawrters are weird. Well except for the IRB issues. Not like that ever stopped science! Or girlfriends.