Word: nassaue
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Lying asleep, dreaming sweet dreams of a forthcoming triumph in the afternoon, 300 loyal sons of old Nassau were awakened smartly at 7:30 o'clock Saturday morning by the strains of reveille and Harvardiana pouring sweetly and melodiously over the Tigertown campus...
...Princeton's first reunion since 1942, and the largest in her 200 years; 10,000 alumni from 52 classes were singing Going Back to Nassau Hall. Tired businessmen, bankers, lawyers and bond salesmen joyfully shucked off their Brooks Brothers' pinstripes and climbed into silly Mardi Gras costumes for a lost weekend. For four days Mayor Minot Morgan Jr., '35 and the police of little Princeton borough (pop. 7,719) were as busy as if the Legion had come to town...
...between dinners and smokers, alumni meandered down Princeton's pavements, felt sentimental amidst the stately elms and maples, wandered into buildings they had not known for years, got lost in new ones, gaped at the excavation for the new library. On the ivied walls of Nassau Hall they hunted their class tablets, and in Memorial Hall a solemn few paused to wonder where the university would find room for the names of Princeton's 338 World War II dead...
...bereted Marshal Melville Dickenson, portlier now than when he captained Princeton's undefeated 1922 football team. Round University Field the alumni marched in review-past President Harold Dodds and a handful of pre-1896 Tigers (their joints no longer limber enough for P-rading.) Then everybody sang Old Nassau, and settled down to watch the ballgame. As usual, Yale won; this time...
Little Lily. All her life Wilhelmina has admirably filled the role of a Princess of Orange-Nassau. In 1880, fearing that the line would die out and the crown would pass to some alien German princeling, the Dutch waited anxiously to see if the aging King William III would produce a child of his old age. With wild jubilation, they greeted the announcement that a royal daughter had been born...