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...Princeton, the former is usually the case. Princeton freshmen are required to wear little black dinks, (the fields of hazing and spirit are hopelessly enmeshed). At the end of September, a flood of dinkless frosh swept into Princeton's Commons, in direct violation of an old Nassan tradition. Sophomores rallied round the supper table, linked arms, and shouted "No Dinks, No Dinner!" One freshman hit his head against a Gothic wall, but the fight reeled its way onto the steps of Nassau Hall, where the sophomores overwhelmed the freshmen. The Daily Princetonian listed six freshmen who were subsequently treated...
...years ago, freshmen refused to wear their dinks and sophomores threw a barricade around the dining hall, refusing to let any dinkless yearlings by. For three bloody days the battle raged, while the University stood on the sidelines and applauded...
...nights later "the old-time Princeton class spirit was back with all its pre-war force" as 500 defiant, dinkless Freshmen vainly battered a solid Sophomore phalanx in front of Alexander Hall. The Freshmen fought like "demons," the daily tells us. "Fists flew promiscuously, water and even water buckets dropped from above...
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