The first flunk day was announced by a notice posted at chapel (which students were required to attend) and plastered across campus in classrooms and outside walls. It encouraged everyone to "give his intellectual organ a short respite" by cutting classes", and kindly requested the faculty to lend "their cooperation by taking their wives and going on a picnic."
The students followed suit and headed to the Cedar River for a day of picnicking and boating. The day was enough of a success that the tradition has lasted a hundred and one years past the first one held on May 3, 1911.
For more Flunk Day history you can visit Coe's digital exhibit of Flunk Day posters.
Till next Thursday
Sara
P.S. Thank you Anna for your questions. I will make sure to answer them next week. I am still open to questions: what do you want to see a blog post on?
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