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This winning goal was a reward which Princeton might have deserved more than Harvard, but both teams played fast, hard hockey. The Crimson team had its energetic moments, and played a good tactical game on the offense, but it was at times slower than the outfit from Old Nassau, and often confused by a trick attack of the visitors in which the wings crossed over and exchanged positions. Lady Luck and a very brave deGive in the Harvard nets kept the visitors from scoring on the Crimson during 16 minutes of the third period, when Harvard was continually...
...that made any sense at all. One gentleman suggested that it was a convenience to the men who work in Commons. That was distinctly an idea, but it was not a very good one; since only a small proportion of the student waiters sleep within waking distance of the Nassau bell and since alarm clocks are now sold at a price within the reach of everyone...
There were also some mutterings about the sentimental value of traditions which we hooted down on the familiar grounds that outworn traditions are the enemies of progress. It was noticeable, too, that the voices raised in defense of ancient custom came from individuals who lived far away from Nassau Hall...
That was the extent of our discoveries on the matter and we think it fails to justify the bell. It is no very serious matter. The unfortunate undergraduates who live under the shadow of Nassau Hall probably become inured to the clamor after a short time and find they can sleep through it. The thing is a nuisance, however, and if the Commons men can be supplied with alarm clocks and the sentimentalists reconciled, we suggest that it be abolished. --Daily Princetonian...
...first proclaimed. Cheered to the echo at Munich, he shouted jovially at the crowd "Fine republicans you are!'' Nowadays, as his twinkling Mercedes carries him about Bavaria, Rupprecht accepts with dignified nods and bows the homage of his "subjects." Beside him rides "Her Majesty," Antoinette of Luxembourg and of Nassau, who was 21 when he married her in 1921. has borne him five children. The "Crown Prince'' is 27-year-old Albrecht, only child of Rupprecht's late first wife...