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Tag: Houseparties

  • First use of Houseparties term?

    Question: Can you definitively document the first use of “Houseparties” as a term for the Spring club bacchanal? Answer:Writing in the Princeton Alumni Weekly in 1960, Brown Rolston 1910 makes the claim that “It was my section of the Cottage Club and that of Cap and Gown which started Houseparties. It took considerable argument and…