[PW] College jack-o-lantern tradition

[Lois Fundis]

--- Meredith Dixon <dixonm at pobox.com> wrote:

> 
> Anyway, what I'd like to ask Project Wombat is, does
> anyone know whether there 
> are any other women's colleges who have or used to
> have such a tradition?  

Meredith: 

The University of Pittsburgh has for many decades had
a Lantern Night ceremony as a welcome to freshmen
women -- always seems redundant or oxymoronic or
possibly both, that phrase>. Nothing to do with jack
o'lanterns, but with the old-fashioned metal kind that
hold candles, symbolizing the light of learning. I
still have my lantern: I participated in the ceremony
both as a freshman (1968) and as an older student
welcoming the frosh.

I will try to look up more info on Lantern Night's
background when I get home. It might be on the website
www.pitt.edu but it's getting to be closing time here
at the library now.


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