2013-11-25
Images of Freshmen and Sophomores fighting it out during the Hulme Fight, 1932.
To overcome all the ill-effects of scrapping and hazing between the Sophomores and Freshmen which held sway until the year of 1914 a series of athletic contests was adopted by the students and faculty by means of which the youngsters of the student body could learn to admire and love each other in the shortest possible time.
As soon as the classes are organized a day is set for the big contest and Frosh meets Soph in a manly struggle to decide which is worthy to lay down the law. They wrestle and race - pick-a-back - tug-o-war through a stream of water from a fire-hose and do the Hulme fight, originated by Dean E.M. Hulme. Then when it is all over they attend the “Bury the Hatchet” dance and amiably forget their differences in a general get-together in the gymnasium.