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Summer is now at hand at Princeton, the pleasantest season of the year. Third term is marked by a great decrease in the polling statistics, with a corresponding increase in the loafing. As soon as the weather permits, the collegiate finds no pleasure so great as a cigarette under one of the great elms on the north campus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTER FROM PRINCETON. | 5/10/1882 | See Source »

...hall that few men would resist. Instead of being a half-deserted, lonesome place, which makes a man feel "blue" the instant he enters it, it would become a true commons, where would resort the most of the men in college, to pass what would become the pleasantest hour of the day. I trust that you will give this communication a place in your columns, although I confess that it may seem very much of an innovation which I advocate. Yours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/23/1882 | See Source »

Memorial Hall is one of the most attractive features of the college, and to many one of the pleasantest factors of their student life. It must be maintained at all efforts, and it is really difficult to understand why its successful support should be for an instant even doubted of. Numberless schemes for improving the condition of the Dining Association have been offered. Some are worthless, others seemingly good, but the majority possess the salient objection of being impracticable. The faults usually found with the hall are generally without foundation. The price, considering all things, is moderate; the fare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/16/1882 | See Source »

...York correspondent of the Advertiser writes of the recent Harvard banquet: "I should not like to state at what hour the festivities came to an end, but I should like to say, from a long experience at large dinners, that this was the pleasantest and most refined I ever attended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/28/1882 | See Source »

...Boston press does "vent its indignation?" That's what newspapers are for. Let the class of '85 show themselves gentlemen, at least, as much as the upper classes, but let not their "dignity" and faintheartedness prevent their trying to make their college days what they should be, the pleasantest part of their-lives, as well as the most profitable. As to the support of their crew, nine, etc., it may be that the class is not so strong, financially, as some of the others. There have not recently been so many applications for aid and scholarships, I believe, as from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNICATIONS. | 1/20/1882 | See Source »

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