Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the Princeton books and manuscripts now on exhibition in the Widener Library Treasure Room is a copy of the "Laws of the College of New Jersey" for 1802. It is apparent from a study of this rule-book that the authorities of Old Nassau trusted their charges not without reservations...
From his old, gray slab before University John Harvard, almost blithely, steps forth and limbers his jade green legs preparatory to moving over to the stadium for the formal welcome of these play boys of the Jersey world. Nor is he completely bored by his duties as host. Cambridge, is such an ancient, gloomy place! John is really quite gay about the young visitors--and, frankly, it is rumored that he is going to continue gay, even late into the afternoon, wild animals to the contrary not with standing...
...become a tradition of hallowed standing that a Nassau eleven invading the Stadium should come jerseyed in mystery. Players who discard crutches for cleats and clutch impossible passes, to fall across the goal line are no less permanent a part of the Princeton travelling equipment than the Tiger water bottles. Plays that have ruffled the grass only behind high board fences of New Jersey are all ready to be revealed to a crowded Stadium this afternoon. And of no other team is the truism so true that predictions based on previous scores are like houses built upon sands...
...executors of the will of John Alford, who had died in 1761, established in Harvard College, according to the desires of Alford, in 1789, the Alford Professorship of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. Alford's will left $10,000 each to Harvard College; the "College of New Jersey", now Princeton; and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Indians...
...critic is no longer the white haired sage whose years and experience have fitted him for the task of judging the merit of literary endeavors, but the child of twelve whose rompers take the ink spots as her brilliant pen splashes on its critical way. Elizabeth Benson of New Jersey at the age of twelve has seen in criticism her life work and has only waited until she has reached the ripe age of twelve before beginning seriously to judge the merits of her elders. However, there are those who still believe a background of a dozen years in this...