Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn., March 27--President James Rowland Angell of Yale an nounced today that the Corporation had voted to honor the memory of two Yale graduates of the eighteenth century, who became the first presidents of Princeton and Dartmouth, by naming the dormitory buildings now located at York and Library Streets. Dickinson Hall and Wheelock Hall. Funds for the erection of these buildings were provid by a bequest made to Yale by the late M. Judson of Bridgeport. Conn...
Jonathan Dickinson, who took his Yale A B in 1706, took the lead in establishing the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton University, and served as its first president. The newly founded college was established in Dickinson's house at Elizabethtown, N. J. in May 1747. It was not removed to Princeton until a decade later. A majority of the first Board of Trustees of Princeton, and Dickinson's two successors in the president's chair, Aaron Burr and Jonathan Edwards, were also Yale graduates...
...Alpern '28, of Pittsburgh, Pa., was announced last night as the recipient of the Coolidge prize for debating by Coach E. M. Rowe '27. The Coolidge prize, consisting of $100, is awarded each year to the man preparing the best speeches for the debates against Yale and Princeton...
...annual revival of athletic relations between Princeton and Harvard probably will take place at Princeton on Saturday, May 12, according to a letter received at the CRIMSON offices yesterday...
John D. Rockefeller III (student) was elected vice-president of the Philadelphian Society at Princeton University The society's purpose is to promote religion among the undergraduates. William S. Mitchell of Little Rock, Ark., was elected president...