College Traditions

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• Senior Canes were carried during the last weeks of the college year as a symbol of the accomplishment of the soon-to-be graduates. They eventually fell out of favor with the students and were replaced with a senior ring in 1940.


• Freshman Rules posters were written and enforced by the sopohome class.The rules were traditionally posted on the night before the first day of classes. The sophomores would hang the posters on poles and trees along Main Street. Unless the freshmen could get past the vigilant sophomores to remove all the posters by 7 a.m., the rules had to be obeyed.


• Fraternity and Sorority paddles were given to pledges as part of the initiation process.