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...desk in Nassau Hall, Princeton University, sits a slightly bald, slightly stooped, slow- spoken gentleman whose grey eye twinkles at a witticism in the French literature he knows so thoroughly, quite as often as his firm lip stiffens to pronounce upon matters of policy and discipline-Dean Christian Gauss...
Popular though his daughters may be, Dean Gauss became at once unpopular. The motor-loving young men of Princeton baited him by all means-by roller-skating noisily, by driving horse-and-buggies, by wearing placards. The Princetonian (campus daily) headlined in its burlesque issue: "GAUSS'S SHAME." A senior, George Lambert, sporting scion of Listerine (mouth wash, etc.), inspired university admiration by bringing to town an airplane and droning over the campus in it. Airplanes were not mentioned in the Gaussian edict against motor vehicles...
Just who is this standardized American anyway? He is, it would seem, an even more elusive personality than this Christian Gauss. For just what are his standards, and wherein lies the vice of standardization so long as the standards partake to some extent of the nature of truth...
...become a troublesome problem in Princeton, as elsewhere. Five undergraduate deaths, the poor scholastic standing of 200 student automobile owners and the threat to Princeton's traditional seclusion latent in roadsters capable of reaching bright-lit cities in two hours of the day or night, moved Dean Christian Gauss to ask the senior council to pass a prohibitive ruling. He asked twice. The council took no action. It had passed a rule last spring requiring parental permission for student motors. Cars were not allowed to enter the campus. The council believed that was sufficient prohibition. Dean Gauss went...
...would also like you to know that this article was shown to Mr. Roper, Dean Gauss, Professor Kennedy and President Hibben of Princeton because we decided to print it. I feel that they have been given every opportunity to reply in any manner they may choose and that I cannot in any way be accused of under cover attack...