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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...
Princeton's famous cannon on the green behind Nassau Hall is another focus point for annual Tiger traditions. It is here every spring that the senior class holds its "horsing" class day exercises. In this ceremony all seniors gather in a group and while smoking clay pipes, make fun of the deans. At one time or another the senior representatives have started off around Nassau Hall with the deans on piggy back, but come round the other corner riding their masters...
...known to ride seniors around Nassau Hall in a rickshaw, and his famous grin prompted a song rhyming "grin" and "sin" with the sentiment that it was from the latter that he got his income. At the end of the ceremonies, all the seniors break their pipes on the cannon. The sundial is another place reserved for seniors, with steps on which only members of the graduating class...
...Like a cannon rolling loose on the deck of a frigate, Marlon Brando crashes through "Streetcar," malicious and violent. Screeching like a cat, walloping tables and women, peeling shirts off his sweaty muscles and tossing away his lines in a punchy, thick-lipped Polish accent, Brando fixes the attention of camera and audience until the sound of his voice seems a separate presence on the screen...
...almost up to date. So is his odometer, a device to measure distances by counting the turns of a wheel. His mechanical jack looks as if it had been designed for changing tires on a modern automobile. If Leonardo had had a gasoline engine, his tank (with breech-loading cannon and independent spiked wheels) might have been effective during World...