tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406509183596335885.post-90893773431760380962008-05-01T13:40:00.007-04:002008-11-25T23:59:06.874-05:00Either that or someone has just painted their eyes red. Go see (and send me a picture, if you'd be so kind).<br /><span id="fullpost"><br />Don't worry, though: they've suffered and survived greater indignities in the past. About a hundred years ago, while Wilson was still President of the university, <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D05E0DE1E30E733A25755C1A9659C946297D6CF">one of the lions was actually beheaded</a>. Poor Wilson, since it was his class (the article says '79, but of course that's <span style="font-style: italic;">1879</span>) that gifted the university with the late golden feline.<br /><br />The class of 1879 originally put the lions in front of Nassau Hall, by the way. Their journey is actually quite a romantic story. When tigers took over the position of mascot, they also took the lions' place in front of Nassau Hall. The lions were placed in front of 1879 Hall - then they disappeared. Bud Wynne '39 noticed that they were missing, searched them out with a flashlight, and eventually found them in some dusty basement somewhere. <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/%7Epaw/archive_old/PAW98-99/04-1104/1104cns.html">Ten years ago, they were reinstated in front of Wilson College</a>, and there they still stand today.<br /><br />Now with their eyes gouged out.<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3406509183596335885-9089377343176038096?l=blogs.dailyprincetonian.com'/></div>Lillian Zhou '11noreply@blogger.com1