Harvard Primal Scream
Like all fads, the college streaking craze of 1974 was short-lived. But several colleges have ongoing traditions of naked runs. At Harvard, twice a year, the night before final exams begin, students streak around Harvard Yard, as shown above in January, 2009.
A tradition started in the 1960s that on the night before final exams, students would gather in Harvard Yard or open their dorm windows and for ten minutes they would just yell to release stress. This was the "primal scream."
Somehow, by the 1990s, the tradition morphed into a different way of releasing stress: getting naked and streaking around Harvard Yard. But the event is still called Primal Scream.
Above, in December, 2014, Primal Scream streakers met Black Lives Matter protesters who were protesting the killing of Michael Brown.
Primal Scream streakers in May, 2018.
We end with a video of the Primal Scream from 2019.
A historical footnote: Charles Adams, the son of John Adams, the second President of the United States, was a student at Harvard. In 1788, Charles and some friends were caught running naked across Harvard Yard, the first known college streaking incident in America. I think Charles would be pleased to know that Harvard students were still streaking more than 200 years later.
4 comments:
Not that I am interested in females, naked or otherwise, but are all the streakers male?
No, though as usual in such events, males outnumber females. Of course, I selected photos showing guys, not girls, and the group that was "leading the pack" in the video was all male.
I noticed a nicely-busted woman on roller skates when the group passed by the band. Anyway, I always love a nice man-ass and I admire greatly your research. The John Adams connection was very interesting.
absolutely interesting and amazing
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