Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)--Students--Societies and clubs
Organization
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Records of Trig Cremation
Collection
Identifier: 31/6/102
Abstract
This collection documents Northwestern's annual Trig Cremation ceremonies, which began in the 1870s as students conducted a spring-time ritual centered around the burning of their hated trigonometry textbooks. Over the years the ceremony turned into a student-produced musical. The collection contains clippings, and written histories of the Trig Cremation (1880-1936), as well as programs, handbills, and songbooks from ceremonies (1877-1912).
Dates:
1877-1936