tuesday-johnson: ca. 1877, “A College Powwow” As part of Presentation Week, an event at Yale College, freshmen held “powwows” during the hours of the president’s reception: “As it grew later and darker, Freshmen, covered as to their faces with burnt cork, Freshmen with striped pants, Freshmen with hooped skirts, Freshmen with hoofs and tails, Freshmen with big beards and bobtail coats…Freshmen with all sorts of conceivable and practical disguises…march[ed] slowly across the college yard…for the purpose of celebrating their entrance upon Sophomore year.” (Harper’s Monthly Magazine, 1864) via The American Tintype, by Floyd and Marion Rinhart, Robert W. Wagner

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1877, “A College Powwow”

As part of Presentation Week, an event at Yale College, freshmen held “powwows” during the hours of the president’s reception:

“As it grew later and darker, Freshmen, covered as to their faces with burnt cork, Freshmen with striped pants, Freshmen with hooped skirts, Freshmen with hoofs and tails, Freshmen with big beards and bobtail coats…Freshmen with all sorts of conceivable and practical disguises…march[ed] slowly across the college yard…for the purpose of celebrating their entrance upon Sophomore year.” (Harper’s Monthly Magazine, 1864)

via The American Tintype, by Floyd and Marion Rinhart, Robert W. Wagner

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