Word: pennsylvania
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Reports reached Cambridge late last night that the band was planning to give Princeton undergraduates a surprise concert at 4 a.m. this morning. The band expected to play during a brief stop-over in its trip to the University of Pennsylvania for today's football game...
...page seven of the University of Pennsylvania's freshman handbook, a high-minded quote from Ben Franklin, the founder of the University, appears: "The instruction of youth is one of those employments which to the public are most useful; it ought therefore to be esteemed among the most honorable. Its successful exercise does not, however, always meet with the reward it merits, except in the satisfaction of having contributed to the forming of virtuous and able men for the service of their country...
...Dinks" are ludicrous beanies that rarely fit and are greatly unbecoming to the freshman. Regulation number four tries to justify the wearing of the caps: "The purpose...is to instill the true spirit of Pennsylvania into the Class...
These two facets of life at Penn--the Franklin ideal and the largely self-styled "spirit of Pennsylvania"--show at once both the best and worst of the Philadelphia university. On the one hand there is the recognition of the value of learning as shown in the laudable efforts of president Gaylord P. Harnwell to raise the school's standards. On the other, many students refuse to grow up; this immaturity, born in the undergraduate body and often unwittingly cultivated by the faculty and administration, makes the University of Pennsylvania seem at times like high school revisited...
...There is no doubt in my mind that expenses will continue to rise in the future," the director of dining facilities at the University of Pennsylvania commented, while the General Manager of Food Service at Columbia has stated, "One would be unrealistic not to expect expenses to rise in the near future." Labor expenses are the greatest factor in board hikes...