I think they wore those bruises like a badge of honor back then. Would be very different nowadays.
Three Princeton students pose after the Freshman, Sophomore snowball fight. 1893. Princeton, NJ.
I think they wore those bruises like a badge of honor back then. Would be very different nowadays.
Three Princeton students pose after the Freshman, Sophomore snowball fight. 1893. Princeton, NJ.
Indeed! They're probably quite proud of their marred faces. I've read that scars from sword fighting were a big thing in some parts of Europe around the same time: wikipedia.
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. - Friedrich Hayek
if you hadn't said they were Princeton students, i woulda thought they were amateur boxers.(<------------ love the emoticons here!!!!
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Last edited by Xstatic1; 02-01-2013 at 06:55 AM.
I wonder if the opposition was packing rocks into their snowballs.
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. - Friedrich Hayek
nah, their opponents had bigger ballsOriginally Posted by Napoleon54
I wonder if the opposition was packing rocks into their snowballs.
(snowballs, that is).
ice maybe? either way, a snowball with the strength in velocity hitting you in the face is going to put a hurting on.I wonder if the opposition was packing rocks into their snowballs.
I suspect more than just snowballs were thrown.
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Like what? That guy on the right looks like he might have shit on his face, so maybe they were shitballs packed with rocks?!
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. - Friedrich Hayek
i've experienced light hail hittin' my face before....it was painful. hate to think what a snowball thrown directly at my face would feel like.
I'm thinking the occasional fist, actually. "Twas the times, but we gave as good as we got!"
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yup!
Heh... the 1893 Edition of "White folks do the darnedest things...." LOL
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