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 As the tradition morphed over time, freshmen began to be allowed the opportunity to win the right to relinquish their caps by playing a game involving a large canvas ball. Freshman would attempt to push the ball from the middle of the soccer field to one end of the field, while Upperclassmen pushed the ball in the opposite direction. If the freshman successfully got the ball to their end of the field, they would be exempt from not just beanie wearing, but also from being conscripted by the upperclassmen as furniture-movers during the first few days of the semester. As the tradition morphed over time, freshmen began to be allowed the opportunity to win the right to relinquish their caps by playing a game involving a large canvas ball. Freshman would attempt to push the ball from the middle of the soccer field to one end of the field, while Upperclassmen pushed the ball in the opposite direction. If the freshman successfully got the ball to their end of the field, they would be exempt from not just beanie wearing, but also from being conscripted by the upperclassmen as furniture-movers during the first few days of the semester.
  
-Students responded with their own (sometimes satirical) gestures placing the symbol of the Freshman Beanie in context. A 1963 //Tripod// article analyzes the elements of a mural in the [[cave|Cave]] located in [[mather_hall|Mather Hall]]. The writer theorizes on the significance of the beanie as a symbol carrying the worldview of a young student as yet untouched by a Trinity education: “Of equal interest is the fact that the freshman ‘beany’ is in the right portion [of the mural] but that the graduate is in the left, suggesting a drift on the part of the Trinity student from far right upon matriculation to left of center upon graduation.” +Students responded with their own (sometimes satirical) gestures placing the symbol of the Freshman Beanie in context. A 1963 //Tripod// article analyzes the elements of a mural in the [[cave|Cave]] located in [[mather_hall|Mather Hall]]. The writer speculates on the significance of the beanie as a symbol carrying the worldview of a young student as yet untouched by a Trinity education: “Of equal interest is the fact that the freshman ‘beany’ is in the right portion [of the mural] but that the graduate is in the left, suggesting a drift on the part of the Trinity student from far right upon matriculation to left of center upon graduation.” 
  
 By the arrival of the new millennium, the freshman beanie had become a tradition of the past. In an interview with the //Tripod// in 2004, interim President Borden Painter, a member of the Class of 1958, recalled the changes Trinity had gone through since his own time as an undergraduate, citing the beanie as a marker of how College traditions had shifted over time. “Can you imagine doing that today?” Painter reflected. “We had to do what upperclassmen told us to do, most schools had something like this, like a sort of initiation.”  By the arrival of the new millennium, the freshman beanie had become a tradition of the past. In an interview with the //Tripod// in 2004, interim President Borden Painter, a member of the Class of 1958, recalled the changes Trinity had gone through since his own time as an undergraduate, citing the beanie as a marker of how College traditions had shifted over time. “Can you imagine doing that today?” Painter reflected. “We had to do what upperclassmen told us to do, most schools had something like this, like a sort of initiation.” 
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