November 3, 2004: From the Archives

Freshmen unload fuel for the Big Three championship bonfire on Cannon Green in this 1920 photo. According to Princeton tradition, bonfire construction was the responsibility of dink-wearing freshmen who often were aided in their task by townspeople and campus construction workers. Bonfires usually were topped off with an outhouse and an effigy of John Harvard, a Yale bulldog, or both.