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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first human being and then a doctor, a lawyer, or a clergyman," the administration claims. This educational theory seems to get results, for Princeton has had more Rhodes scholars than any other college (the score: Princeton 72, Harvard...
...Trustees of the four-year old College of New Jersey voted to purchases a bookcase in 1750. This is the first record in Princeton's annals of any provisions for the printed word. It was just some 198 years later, in June, 1948, that President Dodds set the last few pounds of the 5,200 tons of Foxcraft stone required in the Gothic exterior walls of the 86,000,000,000 Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library...
...first Union Committee election in the history of the University wound up last night with the selection of its ten man Class of 1953 executive board...
...prospect of seriously lowered educational standards in the country disturbs such students of the problem as Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics. In his view, the biggest danger of all-a deficiency of first-class teacher is beginning to show itself already...
Frank Effinger, Yale's top-rate miler, failed in yesterday's race, placing 11th in order of finish. Dave Gregory, running eighth, was first in the Harvard entry. Captain Joe Leeming, running only his third race of the season, followed Gregory at ninth place...