January 29, 2003: From the Archives

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This circa 1891 student photograph shows a boisterous snowball fight, with West College and Reunion Hall in the background. With all the snow Princeton has had this winter, perhaps a school-wide snowball fight could replace the now-banned Nude Olympics as a wintertime tradition? The photo, part of the university archives’ Student Photographers Series, was taken with a Kodak box camera.