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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Do you keep working on a preservation project when you’re running out of the stuff you’re trying to preserve?
- Dead body found in woods just west of GU.
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Vox Pop’s coverage of a body discovered in the woods near the Canal Road entrance of GU proves, sadly in this case, that there’s nothing new under the Sun: the whole western end of the GU campus was home to hoboes and rag pickers well into the 20th century. By today’s standards, I imagine they would be considered “homeless.” In fact, when I was a GU undergrad in the 1960s, the late, incomparably great, Professor Carroll Quigley told us in class that the Canal Road entrance was originally a wagon track leading to their camp, and that when GU evicted them as it began work on McDonough Gym in the late 40s, they won a financial settlement because they had acquired squatter’s rights, having lived there undisturbed by the college for decades.