In this week’s installment of our recurring series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its faculty, students, and alumni, the sophomores conduct their annual end-of-year book burning ritual, women are enrolled in a course for the first time, and more.
June 25, 1980—Ernest Gordon, Dean of the Chapel since 1955, retires.
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June 28, 1870—The annual “Sophomore Burial,” in which sophomores ritually burn and bury the book they least liked to read during the school year, takes place.
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June 29, 1942—Women are enrolled in a course at Princeton University for the first time, studying photogrammetry with engineering professor Philip R. Kissam.
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June 30, 1909—A group of students set sail for the coast of Newfoundland to present a boat to aid Dr. Wilfred Grenfell on a medical mission in Labrador. Trips to the mission will become an annual tradition.
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