A customary practice on college campuses
across the nation at the time, in 1919 the sophomore class at NJC
imposed certain restrictions on the new incoming class. These restrictions
were: "they were not permitted to wear anything red and they were
prohibited form walking on the path from George Street to College
Hall for the duration of their first year… the path we know as "Sacred
Path." The college community would then gather at the end of the
Spring semester for a "moving up" of the classes. At this ceremony,
the first-year students would officially become sophomores as upperclass
women escorted them up "Sacred Path."
Today, we celebrate Sacred Path with a program in
Voorhees Chapel which includes the traditional moving-up ceremony,
a tribute to all service groups, and culminates with a torch-lit
parade from the Chapel to College Hall and then down Sacred Path
to a reception in the College Center. |
