Grand Marshal Week is just ahead and the campus is covered in campaign signs. This past week, while looking through a scrapbook compiled by Dwinel French Thompson, I found a few news clippings regarding GM week during the 1870s. Before I get to that, I should tell you a little about Dwinel (interesting name [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Grand Marshal Week, 1870s
Posted in RPI Trivia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute History, tagged faculty, Grand Marshal, Grand Marshal Week, RPI history, RPI students, student elections, student traditions, top hat on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Tute Screw
Posted in RPI Trivia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute History, tagged fraternities, freshmen, Rensselaer, RPI, Sigma Phi Epsilon, student traditions, students, Tute Screw on March 4, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Every RPI student and alum has invariably heard the term ‘Tute Screw; often used metaphorically and also embodied as an actual object. No one knows who coined the term or how long it has been in use, but the object itself has a documented origin. In the Fall of 1949, Sigma Phi Epsilon [...]
-
-
Recent Posts
-
Recent Comments
cake room on photomontage of a campus … Darel J. Coterel on About the Archives Andres Godoy on Mystery Image #18 Jorj on back when mandolins were … amythearchivist on Mystery Image #19 Archives
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
Tags
