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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: The annual Christmas recess is drawing near, and it may not be out of place to express again the prevailing sentiments of the students as to its duration and arrangement. The Puritan founders of our college, as is well known, were a narrow-minded set of men in some particulars, though great and good in others. One of their exhibitions of narrowness consisted in their condemnation of the celebration of Christmas as an institution of Romanism, a lineal descendant of the east of the Saturnalia of the Pagan Yule Tide, etc. Now a relic of this ancient...
...Gordon then read the 19th psalm, upon which he founded his address. He urged very forcibly that only by the emotional feeling life can man achieve great nobleness. The intellectual life is much, but it is not all. Through music and by music, can we drink in and express the higher life. The preacher then closed with a few words of prayer...
...more than that is entirely unnecessary. Two years ago the game played in New York resulted in a draw which caused a violent discussion between the college papers of Yale and Princeton. This left the question in such a tangled shape that it is presumptuous for any one to express an opinion of the championship of that year. Twelve months ago, the Princeton Faculty forbade the Princeton eleven to play in New York. The Constitution of the Foot-ball Association says that the game between the two leading clubs shall be played in New York. Under these circumstances Princeton...
...power illustrating his idea by pungent and interesting anecdotes which captivated his hearers. One very striking illustration will long be remembered by all who heard it. A farmer on one of the northern railroad lines witnessed a land-slide across the railroad track shortly before the time of an express train. It was in the evening. The man could not reach a telegraph station, and lighting a lantern, he started up the track to stop the train. But he fell, as he heard the train approaching, and broke his lantern, extinguishing the light. With no match his only resource...
...hasten to express my acceptance of the explanation given by Dr. Holmes. that only two lines of his poem relate to Princeton. As I heard him read, without the pronunciation now in his printed poem, I understood that the following four lines referred to Princeton...