Thanksgiving Traditions On College Campuses

Today's students oftentimes assume they volition convey several days away from classes at Thanksgiving...sometimes, a total week.  My married adult woman reminded me that the someone Iowa college she attended didn't convey classes on Thanksgiving together with academic life resumed amongst classes on the next day.  I mean value the establishment that I attended held classes until 5:00 pm on the twenty-four lx minutes catamenia earlier Thanksgiving, simply didn't await us dorsum until the next Monday.

Checking a bit, I establish an interesting video where an archivist from Mount Holyoke College presents diaries together with photographs reflecting Thanksgiving at the institution inward the 1850's.

Cottey College Thanksgiving traditions convey changed inward diverse ways over time.  Accounts of basketball games betwixt pupil societies inward the early on 1900s tin hold upwards establish on the Cotteyphile website.  Field hockey became the focus of pupil attending past times the 1930s.

For a while, at that spot was a tradition of alumnae returning to Cottey on Thanksgiving, though this became "Dad's Day" inward 1960.

The emergence of football game on college campuses inward the belatedly 1800's before long led to scheduling of telephone commutation contests on Thanksgiving Day.  Images for a span of examples follow:

The Ames (IA) Historical Society offers an image of a postcard advertising a game inward 1908 betwixt Drake University together with Iowas State College.

Drury College played a football game with Missouri School of Mines & Metallurgy inward 1928.