March 14, 2008
A Century of Being Irish
St. Patrick's Day at the Missouri University of Science and Technology is more than just shamrocks and green beer. That will be especially true next week, as the Rolla campus caps a century of crowning a student as "St. Pat," the patron saint of engineers, in a celebration that is always raucous and, at times, even debauched.
The tradition started in 1908, when 218 students decided to skip school on St. Patrick's Day to hold a celebration. They crowned a fellow student, George Menefee,
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