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Dances at the clubs turn into wild affairs where liquor is used freely and everybody has a good time. Needless to say on Sundays the parties effects somewhat dampen the elation, but, though handicapped, the Tiger certainly makes out better than during the week...
...student managers which cover just about every need a Princeton man might have. Separate agencies sell pennants and pins, picture frames, beer mugs, flowers and cushions at football games. Other agencies operate post-game dances, type papers, do illustrations for University publications, and deliver newspapers. One called Tiger Tot Tenders is self-explanatory...
Although white shoes in a country club may symbolize the Princeton man to Harvard undergraduates, to the sons of old Nassau Princeton means perhaps more than anything else a jumble of queer and extraneous traditions. Bell clappers, cannon, haircuts, and "dinks" all are words whose significance makes the nostalgic Tiger grad's heart warm, and causes him to chuckle and slap his thigh at the thought of his gay college years...
Many of these traditions died with the war, but Tiger-town still has its share of zany doings. Most of them are annual events dealing with the freshman class, which in Princeton is about as popular with the rest of the University as an untrained puppy at a bridge party. The "frosh" are alternately persecuted and pampered until the class has become a close-knit, self-reliant, if a little obnoxious, unit...
...prize first. The University doesn't mind the theft once a year, although the proctors and campus cops keep a sharp eye out and apprehend anyone they can who acts even faintly suspicious near the tower. To elude the watchful constabulary and get the clapper is every Tiger cub's dream...