Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.); College students; College freshmen; Academic rites and ceremonies; Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.); Coffins; Drum
Members of the class of 1904 stand around a small coffin with kindling under it and sing from a sheet of paper as they prepare to burn their freshman class canes. Students identified from left to right, beginning with man with drum: Winston...
Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.); College students; College freshmen; Academic rites and ceremonies; Academic costume; Roads, Earth
The members of the Pomona College class of 1904 file down a dirt road wearing their mortarboards as they prepare to burn their freshman canes and become sophomores.
Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.); College students; College freshmen; Academic rites and ceremonies; Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.); Coffins; Drum; Roads, Earth; Electric lines
Members of the Pomona College class of 1904 file down a dirt road in Claremont behind a small coffin filled with freshman canes, which they are about to burn. The pallbearers are (from back to front): Vernon Wolcott and William Jencks (on the...
