I was just wondering if the wind only comes from the one direction so the straight section of the wall is unaffected.

I'm not certain about this (perhaps DubDub can back me up), but I think the straight sections are much shorter than the serpentine ones, and they may even be standard double-thickness (but it doesn't look like it in the photo). I've never been to the campus, I just remembered those walls from Architectural History classes.


1745 is a few years too early for those serpentine walls

I know, I didn't mean to suggest that they might be responsible for the phrase, they just sprung to my mind more readily than the older style. Although TJ was pretty precocious, perhaps he was designing structurally interesting fencing as a toddler?