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Old 07-05-2007, 10:46 PM
DSTRen13 DSTRen13 is offline
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At GA Tech all the freshman still get caps. Not that many people wear them and properly fill them out (you're supposed to write different info on them, etc) anymore, but everyone at least has them.
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Old 07-05-2007, 11:58 PM
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All male freshman at my dad's college in the late 50s had beanies. I think they all had to have their heads shaved too. At the time it was an all white school, so it would have been odd if they had copied the tradition from NPHCs.
In fact, the use of the beanie (called a "pot") originated in the Middle Ages as a part of undergraduate life in Europe. This practice was transferred to American undergraduate life as a part of freshman hazing. In many cases, as freshman hazing was outlawed, Greek life became the sole repository of many of these practices. I will now quote from the Introduction: "The Rise of College Fraternities" in The History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity by Dr. Herman Dreer:

"The Middle Ages furnished another prototype for the Greek-letter society in the institution of the guilds. Especially might we consider the guilds of notaries in Florence, those of attorneys in London,the book writers-sellers guilds of Pairs, and the guilds of scholars at Boulogne, Paris, Oxford, Lisbon, Prague, and Heidelberg; and we might consider the guilds of many other medieval cities, where they evolved into universities. Various practices of the guilds of scholars we can today find in college fraternities" p. i-ii.
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Old 07-09-2007, 09:29 AM
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I agree totally.
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Old 07-12-2007, 06:58 PM
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Thumbs up Letterwoman's Sweater

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/hijack

Man, that is the one piece of 'nalia that I really want. A letter sweater.

/end hijack
/HIJACK

I finally purchased one for myself at our last Boule in Dallas!

It was $$$$$$ but oh so worth it. It was the only piece of 'naila I picked up that year.

And I wear that big ole Super Sigma Sweater, even in the summer, as much as I paid for it. lol

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Old 07-12-2007, 10:00 PM
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/HIJACK

I finally purchased one for myself at our last Boule in Dallas!

It was $$$$$$ but oh so worth it. It was the only piece of 'naila I picked up that year.

And I wear that big ole Super Sigma Sweater, even in the summer, as much as I paid for it. lol

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I still want to get one. I think they are classic...
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Old 07-12-2007, 11:34 PM
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Even I wouldn't understand it because it was not around when I pledged in '69. The only beanies were freshman beanies. LOL
What's the difference between the two? I assume the freshman ones are to poke fun at the freshmen? Do they look different? Are they the ones with the propellers?

-Rudey
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