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100 Years AgoApril 10, 1907

Tartan staffwriters poked fun at Princeton University this week in the paper. They wrote about the bedazzling Triangle Club performance the Princeton students put on, saying, “[The song] ‘Mummy Monarch’ ranks with the best in the professional stage.” Continuing, they said that the toe dancing of Mr. Barbee was “exceptionally fine.” Apparently, this was humor in the 1900s.

50 years agoApril 9, 1957

It’s building time! Carnegie Tech introduced plans for three new buildings. Scaled models of Hunt Library, the Dramatic Arts Center, and Carnegie Tech Hall were speckled across The Tartan's pages. Can’t recall the latter two? Neither can we. Anyway, to hell with the past — we have buildings like the...

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