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<div class="caption"> <div class="npf_row"><div class="npf_col"><figure class="tmblr-full"><a class="post_media_photo_anchor" data-big-photo="https://64.media.tumblr.com/f8903eb5072c48dd1166424dacc810d8/8629299a5ec3460a-3c/s1280x1920/8edf5515b9b529b5fca683b7c697c7b19a76f36d.jpg" data-big-photo-height="842" data-big-photo-width="606"><img class="post_media_photo image" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/f8903eb5072c48dd1166424dacc810d8/8629299a5ec3460a-3c/s500x750/a28486ffeee57c4c5eba575b71947810cdfc8fe3.jpg" srcset="https://64.media.tumblr.com/f8903eb5072c48dd1166424dacc810d8/8629299a5ec3460a-3c/s75x75_c1/f2256d46c2c1d0467eba6f3eebe9cff80d4623bb.jpg 75w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/f8903eb5072c48dd1166424dacc810d8/8629299a5ec3460a-3c/s100x200/185dd9e5d42895c2ea4ddec895f5170aa43bb488.jpg 100w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/f8903eb5072c48dd1166424dacc810d8/8629299a5ec3460a-3c/s250x400/b48569743ab925c539b19e070f0ef4376b9ab044.jpg 250w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/f8903eb5072c48dd1166424dacc810d8/8629299a5ec3460a-3c/s400x600/6c1bbc1332913f2470ff2ac6a60bf5bac4291cd9.jpg 400w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/f8903eb5072c48dd1166424dacc810d8/8629299a5ec3460a-3c/s500x750/a28486ffeee57c4c5eba575b71947810cdfc8fe3.jpg 500w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/f8903eb5072c48dd1166424dacc810d8/8629299a5ec3460a-3c/s540x810/9a416a725fcf6979bd5477d72761f48f2abc815f.jpg 540w, https://64.media.tumblr.com/f8903eb5072c48dd1166424dacc810d8/8629299a5ec3460a-3c/s640x960/52e5c7f0b54b3073660a9ea26e0a7842bc3fe9dc.jpg 606w" sizes="(max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px" alt="image"></a></figure></div></div><p>Tiger Tuesday: On October 31, 1942 (Halloween), Harvard defeated Princeton鈥檚 football team 19-14 with a touchdown with only seconds left in the game. This is the program from that game, which takes inspiration from the holiday to depict Harvard鈥檚 mascot, the Pilgrim, as a witch riding on a broom with Princeton鈥檚 tiger playing the role of the stereotypical black cat riding along.</p><p>Athletic Programs Collection (AC042), Box 5, Folder 1</p><p><a href="http://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/TigerTuesday">The entire Tiger Tuesday series</a></p> </div> <div><a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/post/765680262025773056/tiger-tuesday-on-october-31-1942-halloween" class="timestamp">— 3 weeks ago with 15 notes</a></div> <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/1940s" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>1940s</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/Halloween" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>Halloween</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/witch" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>witch</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/Princeton" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>Princeton</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/football" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>football</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/Harvard" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>Harvard</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/tiger" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>tiger</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/PrincetonU" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>PrincetonU</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/Princeton%20University" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>Princeton University</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/sports" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>sports</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/athletics" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>athletics</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/Princetonsports" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>Princetonsports</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/cat" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>cat</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/TigerTuesday" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>TigerTuesday</a>  </div>  <div class="box"> <div class="caption"><p><a href="https://definexylophone.tumblr.com/post/190068688816/ever-wonder-what-happens-when-you-connect-a" class="tumblr_blog">definexylophone</a>:</p><blockquote><p> Ever wonder what happens when you connect a telephone wire to a cat’s brain? Me neither, but let’s find out together about the time two Princeton scientists turned a live cat into a telephone <br /></p></blockquote><p>The <a href="https://blogs.princeton.edu/mudd/2017/04/the-cat-telephone/">story about two scientists who made a live cat into a telephone</a> has consistently been in the top three posts on our long form blog in terms of the number of monthly hits since its publication three years ago, but this is the first video we’ve seen that seems to have been inspired by the research Arthur Kim ‘18 did. If you want to learn more about Wever and Bray’s experiment, you can take a look at the sources Kim listed at the bottom of his blog.<a></a></p><p>(via <a href='https://definexylophone-deactivated2021.tumblr.com/post/190068688816'>definexylophone-deactivated2021</a>)</p></div> <div><a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/post/190178989312/definexylophone-ever-wonder-what-happens-when" class="timestamp">— 4 years ago with 8 notes</a></div> <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/1920s" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>1920s</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/cat" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>cat</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/telephone" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>telephone</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/reblog" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>reblog</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/Princeton" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>Princeton</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/PrincetonU" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>PrincetonU</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/Princeton%20University" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>Princeton University</a>  </div>  <div class="box"> <div class="caption"> <p><a href="https://youngconservativemovement.tumblr.com/post/172779208083/fun-fact-princeton-researchers-successfully" class="tumblr_blog">youngconservativemovement</a>:</p><blockquote><p>fun fact: Princeton researchers successfully turned a live cat into a functioning telephone in 1929.<br /></p></blockquote><p>True. You can read about it <a href="https://blogs.princeton.edu/mudd/2017/04/the-cat-telephone/">on our WordPress blog</a>, thanks to the excellent work of Arthur Kim ’18, one of our undergraduate assistants.</p> </div> <div><a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/post/172826374355/youngconservativemovement-fun-fact-princeton" class="timestamp">— 6 years ago with 78 notes</a></div> <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/cat" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>cat</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/1920s" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>1920s</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/telephone" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>telephone</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/reblog" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>reblog</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/link" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>link</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/Princeton" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>Princeton</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/PrincetonU" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>PrincetonU</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/Princeton%C2%A0%20University" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>Princeton  University</a>  </div>  <div class="box"> <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/post/160013092263/the-princeton-university-researchers-pictured"> <img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/5718a4904685c3ccfc829d5a0d4eb041/tumblr_oopocbW9s11u6uefqo1_250.jpg" alt="The Princeton University researchers pictured above are Charles W. Bray ‘25 and E. Glen Wever. In 1929, they made the news for an experiment that successfully made a working telephone out of a live cat. Though they conducted this research out of pure..."> </a> <div class="caption"><p>The Princeton University researchers pictured above are Charles W. Bray ‘25 and E. Glen Wever. In 1929, they made the news for an experiment that <a href="http://bit.ly/2oqnQ90">successfully made a working telephone out of a live cat</a>. Though they conducted this research out of pure scientific interest–just to find out if they could–their findings had significant scientific implications and eventually became the basis for the development of cochlear implants.</p></div> <div><a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/post/160013092263/the-princeton-university-researchers-pictured" class="timestamp">— 7 years ago with 13 notes</a></div> <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/1920s" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>1920s</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/telephone" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>telephone</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/cat" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>cat</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/Charles%20W.%20Bray" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>Charles W. Bray</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/E.%20Glen%20Wever" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>E. 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I am dead serious.</p></blockquote><p>More on this strange-but-true (and rather gruesome) story <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/vlt/summary/v064/64.article01_sub07.html">here</a>.</p> </div> <div><a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/post/129928225561/space-pilot-3000-just-taking-the-time-to-remind" class="timestamp">— 9 years ago with 8 notes</a></div> <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/cat" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>cat</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/1920s" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>1920s</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/science" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>science</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/telephone" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>telephone</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/Princeton" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>Princeton</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/Princeton%20University" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>Princeton University</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/PrincetonU" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>PrincetonU</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/history%20of%20science" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>history of science</a>  <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/tagged/history" class="tag"><span class="pound">#</span>history</a>  </div>  </div>  <div style="clear: both;"></div> <div class="columnHolder footer"> <div class="column navigation" id="navigation"> </div>  <div class="column middle"> <a href="https://princetonarchives.tumblr.com/rss">RSS</a>     /      <a href="/archive">Archive</a>     /      <a href="/random">Random</a> </div>  <div class="column"> <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/theme/3531">Astronaut</a> by <a href="http://petervidani.com">Peter Vidani</a>     /      <a href="https://www.tumblr.com">Tumblr</a> </div>  </div>  </div>  <script type="text/javascript"> autoscale(new Array('object', 'embed')); </script> <iframe scrolling="no" width="1" height="1" frameborder="0" style="background-color:transparent; overflow:hidden; position:absolute; top:0; left:0; z-index:9999;" id="ga_target"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> (function(){ var analytics_frame = document.getElementById('ga_target'); var analytics_iframe_loaded; var user_logged_in; var blog_is_nsfw = 'No'; var eventMethod = window.addEventListener ? 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