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Undergraduate Colleges /
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Traditions |
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- Archsings - Free late night concerts in one of the larger arches on campus offered by one or a few of Princeton's
fourteen a capella groups
- Bonfire - ceremonial bonfire, held only if Princeton beats both Harvard and Yale at football in the same season
- Beer jackets - Each graduating class (and each class at its multiple-of-5 reunion thereafter -- 5th, 10th, etc.)
designs a Beer jacket featuring
their class year. The artwork is almost invariably dominated by the school colors, orange and black, and often features some kind
of tiger-striping images of tigers.
- Bicker - Competitive weeklong selection process employed by certain eating clubs for selecting members.
- Cane Spree - an athletic competition between freshmen and sophomores held in the fall
- The Clapper or Clapper Theft - climbing to the top of Nassau Hall and stealing the bell clapper so as to
prevent the bell from ringing and, thus, from starting class on the first day of the school year. For safety reasons, the clapper
has now been removed permanently.
- Communiversity - an annual street fair with performances, arts and crafts, and other activities, designed to foster
interaction between the University and residents of the Princeton community
- Dean's Date Theater - tradition of gathering late in the afternoon on Dean's Date (see below under "Lingo") outside McCosh Hall, a large classroom complex
in the middle of campus and home of the English department, to watch other students run to hand in their papers before the final
deadline. Said students then join their peers to watch others, some of whom perform cartwheels and other antics (if they are not
running too late) and enjoy snacks and soda
- FitzRandolph Gate - at the end of Princeton's graduation ceremony, the new graduates process out through the main gate
of the university as a symbol of their leaving college and entering the real world. According to tradition, anyone who leaves
campus through FitzRandolph Gate before their own graduation date will not graduate (though entering through the gate is
fine).
- Holder howl - students in Holder Hall dormitory are known to wail, bellow, and screech after studying for hours on any
given night
- Houseparties - formal parties thrown simultaneously by all of the eating clubs at the end of the spring term
- Lawnparties - parties with live bands thrown simultaneously by all of the eating clubs at the start of classes
- Newman's Day - students attempt to drink 24 beers in the 24
hours of April 24th, possibly named after Paul Newman
- Nude Olympics - annual frolic in first snow of the winter (now banned)
- P-rade - traditional parade of alumni (& their families), organized by class year, during Reunions
- Pre-ade - parade for first-year students; they walk from the Chapel to West College while being harassed by
upperclassmen
- Reunions - annual gathering of alumni, held the
weekend before graduation
- Robo-pound - unofficial drinking game of Princeton University, along with Beirut. Princeton rules require two teams, one quarter for each team, a hard surface, eight half-full cups, and
one pitcher of chuggin' beer
- Steam-tunneling - exploring the many underground steam tunnels (a "tradition" now prohibited under University rules;
it is unclear whether it was ever very popular)
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