Blarney Stone (Texas Tech)

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Tradition at Texas Tech holds that the Blarney Stone at Texas Tech University, displayed outside the old Electrical Engineering Building, is a "piece of the original Blarney Stone" in Ireland.

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[edit] History

On Saint Patrick's Day in 1939, Texas Tech President Clifford B. Jones and Engineering Society President Dosh McCreary unveiled the Blarney Stone monument which sits in front of the old Electrical Engineering Building on the university's campus.[1]

The stone on the monument was said to have been discovered on March 7, 1939 by a group of petroleum engineers while they were on a field trip. It is said that the piece was revealed to be an identical match to one which disappeared from Blarney Castle in 1659.[2]

[edit] Tradition

According to tradition at Texas Tech, seniors who kiss the stone upon graduating will receive the gift of eloquent speech. While only seniors are allowed to kiss the stone, underclassmen are expected to pay it the greatest of respect.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b The Southwest Collection's Texas Tech in Retrospect
  2. ^ How to live as a Raider in 12 big ways. The Daily Toreador (August 25, 2006).

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