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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221137-04
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1925
Country: USA
Location: New York University,Vermont
TC Begins: 19:08:03
TC Ends: 19:10:29
Duration: 00:02:26
College Rites & Initiation, 1925 19:08:03 College Large bonfire & men in white walk in snake-line w/ hands on shoulders of man in front, some w/ torches. NYU students watching & one pushes another into water tank. 19:08:26 Daytime & college students throw each other into mud bath. 19:08:40 Students wearing black face do Cake Walk dance up sidewalk in front of seated band; snow on ground. Another group carrying sign UVM Band leading students in costumes pulling floats: baseball; recent eclipses; students in various costumes & in drag parade. A large cardboard meat-grinder labeled The Weeding Out process carried. Large model church w/ sign “ The End of a Perfect World” Feb. 06, 1925 w/ man sitting on roof & praying. 19:09:47 Tattler Title: Mr A.B. Seer refuses to donate money to a girl’s college - says they should be destroyed - animated drawings of girls in college gowns dissolve into drawings of girls in flapper type ‘normal’ clothes - end title “ So is a college education necessary” Fox News. University Stunts; Americana; Racism; Stereotypes; Youth; Sexism; Roaring 20’s; 1920s; Oddities; Womens Issues; University of Vermont (?); Note: Titles are largely off screen (outside safe area).