Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lampoon sent a letter to the Princetonian apoligizing in full for its editorial and declaring that "unwarranted seriousness has been attached to the matter by both Harvard and Princeton." In their apology, they admitted that they had "committed a breach of good taste which did not have the support of the Harvard undergraduates." The pot, it seemed, had cooled...
...root of Princeton's decision to break with Harvard. The "root" supposedly had to do with the college's feeling that the rivalry between the two colleges had become somewhat "aggravated" in the last few years. No one really understood what was meant by this, and the whole matter remained...
Various compromises were suggested; the Student Council mobilized itself to go down to Princeton en mass and discuss the matter; graduates from both colleges fussed and fumed, but the break remained. Perhaps the sanest observation on the whole matter can be found in a letter to the CRIMSON from a graduate of the class of '92. "When Princeton thrashed us in '89 and '90, we went through the same paroxysms and broke off athletic relations. Time has shown us older-grads how silly and wrong it was. The traditional association and common heritage of these two institutions is a real...
...lost an eye as a result of a brawl in college commons." Morison, however, devotes a very interesting article to the unknown historian and his claims for recognition in the same fruitless way that Edwin W. Teale some pages before bids us preserve the bald eagle. Both articles, no matter how well done, seem excursions unrelated to The Atlantic's opening statement of high principle...
...Mathematics and the School of Historical Studies. In these two fields, there is practically no need of contact with society. If something is lacking here, the Institute trys to bring it into the academic community rather than to go out and meet it on neutral ground. The subject matter with which the Institute works is tightly confined by the strict disciplines of mathematical analysis and the historical method...