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...reaches its peak in Friday-night rallies. Nassau "P-rades" last almost two hours from the time they start on Prospect Avenue-Club row-to the time they swell into a crowd of (sincerely) cheering students on the steps under Blair Arch...
Some Colleges, like Stanford or Virginia, are rah-rah and nothing else. Princeton isn't; Nassau men take their studies seriously and work hard on them, probably harder than Harvard students. Freshmen and sophomores carry five courses a term, and every senior (except engineers) must write a thesis-often 60,000 words minimum...
Informal is hardly the word for it. Precepts often held on the campus lawn, or in the tap room of Nassau Travern. About half of them are successful, depending mainly on the ability of the preceptor and how well the group keeps up with assignments...
...Nowadays Nassau men waste afternoons in chem labs inventing newer and louder fireworks to add to the nightly decibels. One of their concoctions almost blew the foot off a proctor last year when he tried to toe it into a neutral zone...
Knowing the dual nature of the college, Princeton's admissions office tries to get dual-nature students. Nassau Hall wants "the all-around boy who possesses a sound mind, a healthy diversity of interests, and those qualities of leadership and citizenship which will make him a fine citizen on the campus and in later life...