- This member can be a student who resides in McMurtry or has advised in McMurtry, or a faculty or staff member who is closely affiliated to the residential college. This word probably originated because people wanted an easier way to refer to these people. There is a strong sense of pride associated with word and people identify themselves as murts. This word is also used as a chant in McMurtry, and students of McMurtry yell ‘murt’ in unison to celebrate being a murt.
murt
clipping clipping of McMurtry
a member of McMurtry College in Rice University
Etymology : clipping of word ‘McMurtry’. The word McMurtry has undergone a conversion in Rice University from meaning a person whose last name is McMurtry to mean the residential college at Rice University.
Source : McMurtry chant: “We are murt! You are dirt!” August 22nd, 2015
Last modified: 30 November 2017