confusing

This is on the Columbia University Campus, NYC

Earliest known conga line?

Bain's photo has been inscribed with the date, 9/27/11. A New York Times story, September 28, 1911, reported some of the events: "Columbia University began its . . . academic year yesterday with a large entering class. . . . The real indication that college was open was the hostilities between the freshmen and sophomores. There was little of the old-time fighting, however, the nearest thing to a battle being an organized tug of war on South Field, which provided merriment for hundreds of spectators." The full NYT report: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A02EFDE1539E3... -------

More Bain/LOC photos of student class rivalry hijinks at Columbia University:

This shot was taken a split second before hilarity ensued.

Well, at least he's going to land on the side with the cushion.

Odd caption. They didn't copy the wrong spelling of athletes as "athlets" as it is written on the original photo (that's the policy in some places), but they did their own spelling version instead, viz, "atheletes". I blame the Greeks. They started it all — phthsis, indeed!

yeah, fix the typo on the photo title.

Thanks! We'll fix the typo in the source data and reload the description