Word: nassaue
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...impression that Princeton is more of a rich boy's school than Harvard would, however, be unjustified. Fully 40 percent of the freshman class is receiving financial aid in some form. The Nassau Hall admissions policy has always been to accept freshmen without regard to their scholarship needs, and to worry about their finances later...
...nearest college is New Jersey College for Women, which is practically monopolized by Rutgers, and there is nothing else save the big cities of New York and Philadelphia to satisfy the Tiger men. In Princeton the Nassau Tavern, a couple of movies, and a bowling alley don't fill the bill. In short, during the week, Princeton is sex-starved...
Although white shoes in a country club may symbolize the Princeton man to Harvard undergraduates, to the sons of old Nassau Princeton means perhaps more than anything else a jumble of queer and extraneous traditions. Bell clappers, cannon, haircuts, and "dinks" all are words whose significance makes the nostalgic Tiger grad's heart warm, and causes him to chuckle and slap his thigh at the thought of his gay college years...
Perhaps the best-known of these traditions is the annual bell-clapper escapade. Every fall as early as possible the freshman class is allowed to steal the clapper of the hell in Nassau Hall's tower in order to prevent it from tolling the hours of classes. If there is no bell, then there are no classes...
...stolen early, too early for an enterprising group of freshmen who made the dangerous ascent to the belfry only to find it gone. Not really knowing what the quarry looked like, they took the most mobile 'thing left--the mechanism of the clock. Without clapper, works or hands the Nassau Hall tower could neither strike the hour nor even point the time. This was not the first time however, that something other than the clapper had been tampered with. Back in the nineties freshmen upturned the bell, poured boiling water in it, and let it freeze, cracking the bell...