Celebrating Our Sesquicentennial
Photographs from the Penn State University Archives
1st in a series
In the 1950s, at the beginning of each fall semester, first-year students were still expected to wear dinks, or beanies, as part of freshman customs. Freshman customs gradually faded, beginning immediately following World War II, with an influx of military veterans, until virtually disappearing by the mid-1960s.

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for previous photos from our year-long historical series

Penn State University Archives is part of The Eberly Family Special Collections Library,
of the Penn State University Libraries.

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