By April C. Armstrong *14

In this week’s installment in our recurring series, streakers surprise clothed peers, a student is amazed by how warm buildings are in the winter, and more.

January 1, 1915—Kenneth Triest (Class of 1918) disappears from Princeton. He will later be charged with espionage.

January 3, 1988—An all-male group of participants for the Nude Olympics surprises peers studying during Reading Period by streaking through Firestone Library.

January 4, 1873—Observing that a half-price train ticket sale has encouraged more students to leave town for the holidays, the Princeton Press observes that it seems different in town without them, and it “detracts from the hilarity of the season” to be so quiet.

January 5, 1835—John L. Manning, Class of 1837, writes to his mother about the heating systems in use locally, which he observes are quite different from South Carolina.

The houses are all warmed underneath by stoves, besides the fireplaces. I really wonder how we have lived at the South. The stores even in town have glass doors and are warmed in that way. The Episcopal Church is kept as warm as possible when you are in there and feels as if you were in a delightful wild Spring day and just step out, the cold freezes your very flesh. The weather is much colder than ours.

For the previous installment in this series, click here.

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