Was it just the old-fashioned college spirit, with G.I. high jinks thrown in? Whatever it was, the nation's college campuses, orderly and disciplined during the war, were popping with mischief that sometimes bordered on vandalism. The Ivy League seemed to harbor the worst offenders:
¶In reprisal for a Princeton raid on the Yale Bowl, 25 Yalemen seized Princeton's radio station, overpowered its staff and broadcast Bulldog propaganda. Then they daubed Yale blue on a bronze tiger in Palmer Square, painted up a Princeton dormitory and clock, burned a "Y" into the Nassau Tavern...
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