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Senior Cords and Pots
Tank Scrap
Senior Cords and Pots
An Example Cap
This freshman cap, from the late 1920s, is part of the Leslie L. and Ruth G. Vaught papers. Notice the white button on the top of the cap. This signifies that the wearer was in Electrical Engineering.
A Green Freshman cap.
Freshman Caps
An Example Cap
Junior Hats
How were they chosen?
Pots
Other Organizations
Senior "Cords"
Ode to the Whistling Pants
The Beginnings
First Appearance
Formal Adoption
Decorations Evolved