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Another quaint outlet for the Stanford spirit is the pajamarino. The freshmen men annually put on pajamas for the rally before the game with Southern California. The festivities begin with the freshmen parading down fraternity row. The frat men line up on both sides of the street with stale fruit and water hoses. Freshmen survivors of this-proceed to the basketball court where they become the feature attraction of the rally. Then they march over to Roble Hall to serenade the freshmen women. This serenade usually turns into an attempt to storm the sacred Roble Halls. Up fire escapes...
Night before Southern California's football team beat theirs, 14-to-7, 300 exuberant Stanford youths smashed the doors of a theatre, did $300 damage inside, were prevented by police with tear gas from breaking into Roble Hall, girls' dormitory, to climax their annual "pajamarino riot...
...comprehend at this distance. However, a moral can perhaps be drawn from it. Local residents, theatre proprietors, and administration officials might give heed to the ways of other colleges and be thankful that the sons of the Cardinal are relatively restrained in their search for excitement. The annual fresh pajamarino with its inevitable wind-up at the Play show houses appears rather innocuous beside the recurring affrays at Harvard. Stanford Daily...
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