99 years proud: Annual tradition glows at Lantern Night
By Benjamin Nigrosh, For The Pitt News
August 25, 2019
As Linda Wharton Boyd looked out over a sea of first-year female Pitt students on Sunday night, she asked each attendee to look to the person to their left and the person to their right and repeat a three-word phrase.
Lantern night shines a light on women’s education
By Madeline Gavatorta, Staff Writer
August 27, 2018
Women at Pitt first began celebrating Lantern Night, the oldest tradition at Pitt, in 1920. This year, at the 98th annual celebration, alumnae passed the "light of learning" to first-year women.