Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring when twice the chapel emitted, in the dead of night, not gentle, melodious, bell-music but a prodigious, strident jingling & jangling. There had been, Grotonians knew, depredations in the chapel. To catch the marauders (presumably schoolboys), wires and alarms had been rigged up. These went off, set the campus in an uproar, revealed naught but the fact that the alarm mechanism was faulty, had worked spontaneously. The villains have never been caught...
...current issue of the Alumni Weekly appears a curiously skeptical editorial. . . . It "humbly suggests" that the Princetonian adduce facts and figures to establish its contention that a general decline of interest in extra-curricular activities marks the Princeton Campus today. "Has the Princetonian made a thorough survey?" asks the Weekly (which has a "trace of the Missourian" in its make-up). If not, let its candidates set to work compiling statistics on competitions and squad turn-outs for the last five years in order that it may speak with authority...
...regard to "student government," the tremendous rise of informal sports like squash, golf, and tennis, consternation of advisory athletic committees about the new low struck by Princeton teams--these are among the considerations which have led the Princetonian to affirm a belief which is widely held on the Campus. The specific causes of present conditions we have tried to set forth in a number of previous editorials. That they are not peculiar to Princeton is evidenced by similar testimony from the Williams Record, the Dartmouth, the Yale News, the Harvard CRIMSON, the Pennsylvanian, the Cornell Sun, and the Brown Herald...
Students know him as the kindly man who crosses the campus with an Airedale terrier, which shares his popularity. They know him also as the husband of a gracious spouse, and regard the pair much as King George & Queen Mary are regarded in England. There is a student song which goes...
...back those of their number whose other activities have first proven their abilities. Comparatively few non-fraternity men are among these competing in the various activities this fall. If the non-fraternity man is to occupy more positions politically he will find it necessary to lend more support to campus activity as a basis for political honors...