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• 1910s
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Columbia students giving Freshmen a dry shampoo (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Karen Green said:

  They are perched inside one of the two fountains on the Low Library plaza; clearly with no water in it. Is that what makes the shampoo "dry"?

• Wystan said:

  Typically this college hazing stunt involved sophomores capturing a freshman and vigorously rubbing eggs and/or dirt and leaves in his hair. A 1908 postcard photo from Ann Arbor shows two University of Michigan freshmen receiving an egg shampoo:

• Wystan said:

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

Staged toboggan accident involving three women in bathing suits, Mount Rainier National Park

from University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections

• 15 older comments, and then…
• Janus said:

  :))

• Beausmiley said:

  burr! lol
  
  What an awesome collection!
  --
  Seen on your photo stream. ( ?² )

• BigBean said:

  this has got to be the funniest and most surreal photo I've seen in the Commons so far. A staged tobogganing accident on top of a mountain involving three girls sprawled on the snow in bathing suits. : )

• Hanne Dale said:

  Haha, I second BigBean's thoughts there...lovely.

• ReporterErin said:

  That's awesome. I wish we knew who these women were and how the whole thing came to be.