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| Date: | 06 20 1931 |
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| Description: | Nine members of the junior and senior class at the University of Wisconsin are sitting in a semi-circle dressed as Native Americans. They are smoking the p... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Ceremony for erecting tablets on the Observatory Hill Mounds performed by University of Wisconsin summer session students. |
| Date: | 04 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's new racing shell, the Mendota, receives the champagne bottle from sponsor Mrs. Harry (Mary) Stuhldreher in the christening ceremony on t... |
| Date: | 05 16 1948 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison sorority Delta Delta Delta (Tri-Delt) honor engaged sorority students with a "Pansy Breakfast". Stepping through the pansy ... |
| Date: | 11 12 1949 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin senior law students take part in the tradition of tossing their canes over the south goal post crossbar at Camp Randall stadium. Th... |
| Date: | 01 14 1950 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison President E.B. Fred with senior class president F. Anthony Brewster at the first convocation for a mid-year graduation. Pre... |
| Date: | 02 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Rev. O.B. Ransopher of Wisconsin Rapids, president of the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, placed a wreath at the foot of the Abraham Lincoln statue in fro... |
| Date: | 05 05 1950 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin's annual Senior Swingout ceremony is to be held May 20 on Bascom Hill as an important feature of Parents' Weekend on the campus. Ho... |
| Date: | 11 04 1950 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin senior law students participate in the traditional ceremony of tossing their canes over the south goal post's bar at the homecoming... |
| Date: | 05 19 1952 |
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| Description: | May crowning of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Edgewood College, Madison. Part of the court of honor is shown with Rosemary Darcey, Watertown, (last in the cen... |
| Date: | 10 31 1953 |
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| Description: | Senior law students throw canes over the goalpost at the University of Wisconsin Homecoming Game against Iowa. Nearly one hundred students, including four ... |
| Date: | 06 19 1954 |
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| Description: | One of three negatives that make a panorama of University of Wisconsin graduates and families sitting in the stands at Camp Randall Stadium during graduati... |
| Date: | 10 17 1958 |
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| Description: | Initiation ceremony by the University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi professional business fraternity. Among those invited to the event we... |
| Date: | 10 17 1958 |
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| Description: | Initiation ceremony of the University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi professional business fraternity. Pictured are three actives of the f... |
| Date: | 10 17 1958 |
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| Description: | Initiation ceremony of the University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi professional business fraternity. Governor Vernon W. Thomson became W... |
| Date: | 05 17 1959 |
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| Description: | A crown of roses and lilies-of-the-valley are placed on a statue of the Virgin Mary during Edgewood College's May Crowning ceremonies. Mary Jane Roach, on ... |
| Date: | 11 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Senior law students toss canes over the goal post during the University of Wisconsin homecoming game against Northwestern. Tradition states that those who ... |
| Date: | 04 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Debbie Duncan, University of Wisconsin student from Batavia, IL, christens "Rosebud I", a used 33-ton Sherman tank, with a bottle of beer at Ed's Service S... |
| Date: | 09 |
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| Description: | Wide angle view of 2,700 freshmen students in the Stock Pavilion being officially welcomed to the university. In the foreground is a large sign on an easel... |
| Date: | 05 21 1959 |
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| Description: | Students of St. Mary's hospital School of Nursing held their annual May crowning ceremony by crowning the statue of the Blessed Virgin with a wreath of flo... |
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