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...ball was kept near the Harvard goal for most of the time; but in the last ten minutes of the first three-quarters, Princeton "braced up," and drove it up towards their goal. McCosh of Princeton made a very pretty kick that was much applauded, as was also Bullard's run; but Princeton showed want of practice in passing the ball. At the end of the first three-quarters the game stood: Harvard, one touch-down; Princeton, nothing...
...Princeton team was--Rushers Messrs, E. Nichols, Van Dyke, Potter, Enos, Ballard, McNair, Wylly, Half-tends, Messrs. B. Nichols (captain), Smock, Stewart, McCalmot, McCosh. Tends, Messrs. Cutts, Dodge, Thompson...
...British manner. Yet the Yale (and Harvard) "House Plan" had its forerunner in U. S. colleges long ago. In 1897 a Princeton political economy professor named Woodrow Wilson began thinking about the advisability of re-organization of college life. Basic trouble at Princeton, he thought, was the clubs. President McCosh had suppressed the Greek-letter fraternities; but their successors, the upper-class eating clubs, were just as bad. ''The side shows are swallowing up the circus," was Wilson's famed remark. "There is danger that we will develop socially, as Harvard did and Yale is tending...
...audiences and immediate relatives of the cast than to the public at large. A new high is set in Princeton satire, however, with a song which demonstrates how to become a member of one of the better Princeton clubs, particularly how to greet classmates on the main campus thoroughfare, McCosh walk. "Doing the McCosh walk" advises young men to arch their backs, protrude their chests, ignore less fortunate friends while grinning servilely at prominent classmates. Incidentally, the tune is one of the liveliest in the show. Other appealing melodies: "Something in the Air" and "On a Sunday Evening" (recorded...
Noticeable among undergraduates and alumni of the Tiffany Foundation is the large Latin population. Edmond Romulus Amateis and Kimon Nicolaides are friends, unofficial assistants of Director Lothrop. And though the roster contains such Nor dic names as Gerald Foster, Erna Lange, David McCosh, there is preponderance of others like Romano, Vincenzo D'Agostino, G. Prestopino to give a Florentine glitter to the art guild of Oyster...