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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Princeton's decision to permit her students to engage in intercollegiate athletics--sport of the sort was dropped at Princeton when we entered the war--has excited both adverse criticism and applause. As the writer understands it, Princeton has no idea of a restoration of the former spectacular displays as staged at the Yale Bowl, at Cambridge, and at Princeton, but, on the contrary, a sane and economical indulgence in games against teams of other colleges. There are now some seven hundred upper classmen in Princeton who, under conditions that have obtained for nearly a year, have been debarred from...
...most essential at the present time, is the conservation of fuel. Although this will hardly be obtained through economizing heat, since college buildings are kept warm a definite part of the day under any circumstances, yet it can be secured by utilizing less artificial light. According to the proposed idea, everybody would rise one hour earlier, and therefore go to bed an hour earlier, for we do not believe anyone will keep to his accustomed habits if he loses sleep thereby. At the time the change is scheduled to go into effect, the sun will rise almost half an hour...
...last night, complied with the request of their committee and the University authorities to provide for their own possible future needs by petitioning for these rooms; why, it is difficult to understand. Nine out of every ten men now in College have no definite idea of where they will be next fall. It is altogether within the bounds of possibility that a declaration of peace will make it advisable for the majority to return. In any event the College has offered every inducement by stating that any contracts will be automatically cancelled if the men do not come back...
...Resolved: That we approve the idea of the development of athletic sports as a means of military training and we offer the facilities of the Association to the use of the student battalion for that purpose; and in the second place, we approve the idea of having intercollegiate athletic competition on a simple and inexpensive plan which shall not interfere with the military training, but which shall maintain the athletic traditions of Princeton...
...feel that the writer has overlooked much that is worthy in this scheme. It is not advocated that students go to bed late and get up early. The idea is rather to go to bed earlier and get up early. We admit that habits are a difficult thing to change, but we rather rely on the inherent rationality of man. There are 1,681 undergraduates in College. If only half of them realized that to get up an hour earlier and do good work meant getting to bed an hour earlier, this would mean the saving of 840 hours...