Founder's Day

Faculty-student baseball game
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Faculty-student baseball game
Student dressed in costume at the faculty-student baseball game
Student dressed as a pirate at the faculty-student baseball game
Student dressed as a pirate at the faculty-student baseball game
Student baseball team at the faculty-student baseball game
Student at bat in the faculty-student baseball game
President MacCracken dressed in a stereotypical Middle Eastern costume and a student at the festivities after the Founder's Day parade
Students in costume for the Founder's Day parade, one dressed as Charlie Chaplin
Dean C. Mildred Thompson dressed in wings and a halo at the festivities after the Founder's Day parade
Students in costume for the Founder's Day parade
Professor Lucy Maynard Salmon's grave, Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery
Faculty team at the faculty-student baseball game
Students in costume for the Founder's Day parade. Four are dressed as an elephant, and a fifth is in stereotypical Indian costume
Elizabeth D. Woolsey (VC 1930) at the faculty-student baseball game
Elizabeth D. Woolsey (VC 1930) at bat at the faculty-student baseball game
Class of 1923 mounting the steps of Student's Building for the song contest
Spectators at the Founder's Day contests. One seated faculty member is in stereotypical Asian costume
Sarah H. McLean (VC 1930) at the faculty-student baseball game
Students in costume with signs about the "Milly A. Wimpfheimer Farm," "Rowdy the Ricket" and Sally the "Scarletina Sister."
Students in costume for the Founder's Day parade, two dressed as ghosts
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