Word: nassau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...praise of Old Nassau...
...praise of Old Nassau, my boys...
...England, while the number admitted from Middle Atlantic, Middle West, and Far West areas all rose slightly. Princeton, on the other hand, stepped up the number of New England students from seven percent of 1954 to 27.3 percent of 1955. while cutting rather deeply into most other sections. Nassau authorities conducted a rather extensive campaign in New England to achieve this result, using such means as the Lawrenceville Hockey Tournament...
...morning of the Princeton game, a fake CRIMSON was circulated, announcing that the Nassau coach had died on the playing field from "holding his breath too long." At the same time, the Lampoon published an editorial, calling Princeton a bunch of party boys more interested in clothes and athletics than scholarship. Princeton retorted that Harvard was taking a supercilious attitude toward their New Jersey neighbors, and that the Lampoon was trying to alibi for a series of defeats. The CRIMSON tried to placate both parties, saying that because of a patronizing attitude, "Princeton is out to get Harvard . . . but they...
...more pleasant assignments consisted of spending several days in Nassau with John P. Marquand for a cover story (TIME, March 7, 1949). Marquand later told fellow Book-of-the-Month Club judges: "I never got such an awful going over" as he received at the hands of Gissen and Researcher Ruth Mehrtens. A later postscript came just a few weeks ago, when Gissen met Marquand, who said: "All the time you were using me I was using you." Marquand, who had drawn on the TIME team for characters in his new book, Melville Goodwin, USA, asked Gissen to convey...