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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...
Goldolphin has been 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...
...their masters and deans. Various responses are received, shock, surprise, or distaste, but one man who is noted for his good-humored handling of the situation is Dean of the College FRANCIS R. B. GODOLPHIN (left, as rickshaw boy). Godolphin is shown above halfway through his race around Nassau Hall, dragging a Princeton senior in a rickshaw. According to tradition the race begins with Godolphin as the passenger, but somewhere on the other side the two change, and Godolphin comes out the laborer. Every year the highjinks at "horsing" change, but one constant is the tradition of the seniors ridiculing...
When Princeton historians shuffle their musty records in search of a proud tradition they will uncover one basic fact -- Princeton University owes its very existence to the munificence of a shady Harvard graduate. The charitable efforts of this disreputable man made Old Nassau a reality, without them the New Jersey College would have fizzled out in the eighteenth century...
...Beyond this, Belcher used his influence in England to get funds for the struggling institution and tried to attract the sons of prominent Massachusetts families as students. In humble gratitude the Princeton trustees wanted to name their first building "Belcher Hall," but the governor declined and suggested the name "Nassau Hall...