Word: davises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John W. Davis of Brooklyn, N.Y., was elected captain of the Princeton football team for next year at a meeting held here today of all men who participated in either the Harvard or Yale games this fall.
Davis was a regular right guard on this year's Big Three championship team and played the position as a substitute last year. Two years ago he was the star lineman of the Freshman team, and also captained the Freshman water polo outfit.
Davis entered Princeton from the Polytechnic Preparatory School of Brooklyn. He is no relation to the Democratic presidential nominee of 1924.
Yet, influenced no doubt by his own life work, Professor Davis qualifies the second of his suggestions by insisting that it comprise a liaison between the colleges and such social endeavors as the Collegiate Industrial Research Movement. By such a means does he believe that academic interests can be vitalized...
So the first suggestion of Professor Davis: that inspirational teachers are a prime requisite in the conservation of the college more nearly approximates the truth. For no matter how much an undergraduate may thirst for knowledge in September, after some months he requires additional stimuli than his books can supply...