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Apr. 22, 2009

Vol. 109, No. 12
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Slide show: The Roaring 20s

Parades, parties, Cane Spree and more – view our campus images from the 1920s.

Posted on April 17, 2009

Members of the Princeton University Press Club, with faculty adviser Christian Gauss – who taught Romance languages, mentored young writers, and disciplined miscreants in his role as dean – in the front row (second from left). From the 1925 Bric-A-Brac.  

 
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2 Responses to Slide show: The Roaring 20s

Doug Fisher '59 Says:

2009-04-23 11:39:18

Great pictures that capture a great period. They brought a smile to my face.

Len Cardinal '90 Says:

2009-04-24 15:42:12

The late night "riotous cacophany" (slide 16) is awesome. We resurrected it in 86 - sans the guns - and I think it is still going today. In late '86, every midnight, my roommates turned off the lights and blew an orange plastic horn out the window. Within days, another room started immediately retorting "you suck!" (think it was Ethan Stein's room), and someone else would let out a primal scream. Within weeks, dozens of holderites starting following this sequence by chanting "hoooo" for several minutes. This became the "Holder Ho". The horn disappeared but the general midnight cacophony lasted for years.
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