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...Conant remembers only one modern repetition of these incidents. That came as a result of a remark last year by President Lowell in a speech at one of the exercises of the Senior class. "He said something about the boys nowadays not having the pep they used to have because they never did anything to the bell. That night some of them smashed down the door and stole the tongue just to show him he was wrong, I suppose...
...What has the college become? It has become a thing of rushing rabbles, jazz orchestras, pep meetings, frolics, hops and schedules fitted to make the second show at the movies. The rushing rabble is inevitably driven away from the spirit of higher learning and our object is lost. In every home the powerful man of business is the hero...
...Because of the favorable weather, fall practice, which ended last Friday, was particularly satisfactory. The number of positions left vacant through graduation encouraged an intense feeling of rivalry which gave pep to the games...
...entire round trip from New York to Princeton on the special boat would cost $13.90 as compared with $27.62 by the normal avenues of travel, a saving of almost one half. Also an attempt is being made to have the University Band on board to work up enthusiasm and pep for a mass meeting to be held on board the boat Friday night...
There is no need of handing over the pamphlet to a professional advertisement writer and asking him to give it a severe injection of "pep". On the other hand it is poor policy to make the "big stick" the most apparent thing in the descriptions. It would seem feasible to print a special pamphlet for incoming freshmen with a full description of the content of each possible freshman course. The description alone will be sufficient attraction without further flourishes and furbelows or more or less veiled threats of probation...