Wednesday, May 20, 2009
One for the Tigers: Going way, way, back
A week from Saturday many thousands of Princeton alumni will march through campus in the "P-Rade," the parade of classes that binds the graduating seniors to the place forever. From the Princeton University archives, behold this footage from the P-Rades of the Roaring Twenties, the decade captured forever by the great chronicler of the "Jazz Age," F. Scott Fitzgerald '17.
Drop by the campus around noon on May 30th and decide for yourself whether it looks much different.
Non-Princeton blogging will resume shortly.
2 Comments:
By 
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Thu May 21, 10:11:00 AM:
One thing that definitely is different about this era's P-Rade is that back in the day it was exclusively for Alumni. Families weren't allowed.
I was a P-Rade marshall for many years. Been there, done that, got the hat. My usual post was at the 1879 Arch when the P-Rade Terminated at the baseball field beyond Palmer Stadium. Mostly I helped parents get their strollers safely down the steps and gently reminded alums that the Borough police frowned on open alcohol on Prospect Street.
Alas we aren't going to make it this year. There's no room at the "inn", my roommates huge house on Boudenot. Also we had made plans to be out on the TR, CVN-71 with the Theodore Roosevelt Society.
JLW III '67
By , at
Thu May 21, 10:06:00 PM:
Great hats, love the three piece suits. Thanks, TH!
Acute (fond?) childhood memories from the 70s of Tigers scampering into their clubs to refill pitchers and then hoofing it back to the street to join their classmates who had kept on marching.
