Johns Hopkins Magazine – cover story

Editor’s note:
“When Jim Paterson pitched a story on Hopkins traditions, we scratched our heads a bit and agreed that we couldn’t think of many. Jim is one of those reporters who will ask a thousand questions of a thousand sources, then go back and ask a thousand more. (One source, Neil Grauer, said to me in the hallway that he had exchanged so many e-mails with Jim, he felt like he had written the story himself.) So I knew if anyone could track down obscure rituals in Hopkins history, Jim could.”