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...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...
...college without an orrery* was as behind the times as a modern university without a cyclotron. So, for ?229 115. 6d., the College of New Jersey bought one of the mechanical planetariums from a Philadelphia clockmaker and installed it in Nassau Hall. When it worked, students of "Natural Philosophy" watched planets on long arms circle about a 4 ft. universe. The sun and moon moved in their appointed orbits; hands pointed to the proper phase of the zodiac marked on a brass ring that encircled the painted, deep-blue sky. Near the top, an inset dial indicated...