Loyola News: “Loyalty Test for LU Beards”
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Title
Loyola News: “Loyalty Test for LU Beards”
Description
This article covers developments in a beard-growing contest among undergraduate students at Loyola during razor rationing during World War II.
"The ten students in each undergraduate campus who have grown the longest beards will compete in a tug of war on the floor of Chicago Stadium as part of the termination of Loyalty week at Loyola university.
The Stadium war will be the occasion of the renewal of basketball hostilities between Loyola and neighboring DePaul university.
The primary attraction of the university-wide Loyalty week proclaimed by Union president Kevin Mulhern, the beard-growing contest, which will start on Monday, Dec. 12, will end on Friday evening with the selection of the all-university beard.
In addition to the prestige gained by the school whose representative wins the contest, the winners will race each other in a shaving contest on the loser's eards.
Other Loyalty week activities include the traditional pie-eating contest."
"The ten students in each undergraduate campus who have grown the longest beards will compete in a tug of war on the floor of Chicago Stadium as part of the termination of Loyalty week at Loyola university.
The Stadium war will be the occasion of the renewal of basketball hostilities between Loyola and neighboring DePaul university.
The primary attraction of the university-wide Loyalty week proclaimed by Union president Kevin Mulhern, the beard-growing contest, which will start on Monday, Dec. 12, will end on Friday evening with the selection of the all-university beard.
In addition to the prestige gained by the school whose representative wins the contest, the winners will race each other in a shaving contest on the loser's eards.
Other Loyalty week activities include the traditional pie-eating contest."
Date, date span, or circa acceptable
December 7, 1949
File name
Loyola News. Vol. XXIX, No. 11, pg. 2. December 7, 1949, “Loyalty Test for LU Beards”
Sources archive, University Archives and Special Collections or Women and Leadership Archives
University Archives and Special Collections
Source
University Archives and Special Collections, Loyola News. Vol. XXIX, No. 11, pg. 2. December 7, 1949, “Loyalty Test for LU Beards”
Subject
Loyola University Chicago
World War II
Student life rationing
Rights
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