Word: nassau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Princeton-Navy game. The management of the Pilgrim apparently didn't have much better luck than local proprietors of stadiums in drawing a crowd for a ball game. Most of the audience, which sat sullenly in its seats nibbling popcorn, seemed to favor Princeton. A good many were Nassau expatriates doing graduate work here. Sailors attended in scattered clumps and watched the proceedings with mixed feelings. Service pride demanded that they cheer for their future officers most of the time but when things went awry for Annapolis they weren't terribly sorry. After all, officers are officers...
...cash, Zog had plunked down "a bucket of diamonds and rubies" in a royal exchange. The King's spokesmen hastily sent out frantic denials. The King, they insisted, had paid an undisclosed sum in the ordinary way, by check. But the deal was closed, and the local Nassau Daily Review-Star gave its new neighbor a friendly editorial: "Welcome, Farmer King Zog. While Nassau County farmers have been selling their land to live like kings on their real estate profit, along comes a king who wants to do some Long Island farming . . . Now when Nassau crows about its cabbages...
...traditionally vociferous, Nassau alumni also have a recruiting machine which, according to one Harvard official, "is simply beautiful to watch." Well-organized Schools and Scholarship Committees scour the nation for scholar-athletes, and when they get one they feel can meet Princton's high standards, they apply continuous pressure. They seldom lose the boy to another college. They contact him at the crucial time just after acceptances have been mailed out. (Harvard, Yale, and Princeton acceptances are usually all sent on the same day, under a College Board agreement...
Princeton also encourages trips to the Nassau campus, shows athletic films around the country, and sends the affable Charley Caldwell on the chicken-salad circuit...
...traditionally vociferous Nassau alumni also have a recruiting machine which, according to one Harvard official, "is simply beautiful to watch." Well-organized Schools and Scholarship Committees scour the nation for scholar-athletes, and when they get one they feel can meet Princeton's high standards, they apply continuous pressure. They seldom lose the boy to another college. Princeton encourages trips to Nassau's campus, shows athletic films around the country, and sends the affable Charley Caldwell on the chicken saled circuit...