Reputation
In a nod to the school's "Midwestern Ivy League" reputation, some call it the only day of the year that the university resembles a state school. Jay Pridmore writes, "'Dillo Day was an exultation of music and art, a moment 'when the freaks come out and mingle with the preppies,' as the Daily put it. Freedom from authority was key: The chief of the Northwestern police force was the star attraction in a dunking booth in 1974." He quotes Daily Northwestern columnist Kathy Castillon in 1988, "Armadillo Day is the one time many future-minded career-conscious yuppies-in-training throw caution (and the results of future drug tests) to the wind and live for the moment."
Stephen Colbert also mentioned Dillo Day at his 2011 Northwestern University commencement speech (Northwestern is Colbert's alma mater, where he was a theater major in the 1980s).
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Famous quotes containing the word reputation:
“I see my reputation is at stake,
My fame is shrewdly gored.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man’s general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings, would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown, would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters, turns upon one shilling.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.”
—Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)