Rutgers Sophomore 'cremation'.
July 16, 1889

…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).



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