…and sometime in the
1860s, the sophomores initiated the "cremation,"
a midnight burning and
mock-burial—with parody of church ceremonial—
of their least favorite book.
Moffatt, Michael. “Inventing the ‘Time-Honored Traditions’ of
‘Old Rutgers’: Rutgers Student Culture, 1858-1900.”
The Journal of the Rutgers
University Libraries. 47.1 (1985).