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struck their plug hats with his ponderous wand and thus dedicated them.

It was a most impressive and unique ceremony and withal intensely amusing. Our class is the first class to hold an initiatory ceremony," and its tremendous success has determined its popularity and permanence. "Each year hereafter the Junior Class of Stanford will hold a similar ceremony and appropriately intro - duce the adoption of the Junior plugs. It will be like the open-air ceremonies of Yale and Harvard, and like the Burning of Bourdeaux