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...Princetonian in an adjoining column. This continuation of the friendly feeling between the two institutions that has been growing during recent years and has resulted in the official and actual resumption of athletic relations should have further results than merely giving pleasure to those who have missed the customary Princeton-Harvard contests. It should impress the athletic authorities with a feeling which is so prevalent among the undergraduate bodies at both colleges and spur them on to making the resumption complete by the return of the Harvard-Princeton football games...
...original break occured after the football season of 1926 when alleged roughness and unfair play on the part of both teams followed a series of interchanged slurs by the Harvard "Lampoon" and the Princeton "Tiger" which culminated in the Princeton-Harvard football program published by the "Lampoon" and bearing a cover depicting a pig in a sty saying to a much mired companion. "Come, brother, and root for deah old Princeton...
...Harvard and Princeton athletic breach cannot be permanent, for in the long run the old friendship of the universities, in spite of temporary cleavage, draws them together. The undergraduates at Cambridge and Princeton with fine spirit have taken the lead in asking that the traditional rivalry in sports be resumed as soon as possible. The difference in policies regarding football schedules is still an obstacle; the programs already arranged make a Princeton-Harvard football game before 1936 improbable. But in the other sports the colleges are not at cross purposes. Meetings in these can take place without great delay...
...Princeton, N. J., Jan. 21.--That the decision about resumption of Princeton-Harvard relations in all sports except football now rests solely with the Princeton board of athletic control is the opinion expressed by "The Daily Princetonian" in an editorial which will appear in tomorrow's issue...
...Charles W. Kennedy is chairman of the Princeton board of athletic control. He has given no intimation of his views on the Princeton-Harvard problem. --New York Herald Tribune...