Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University team will face the University of Porto Rico and the University of the Philippines. There will also be a debate with Northwestern, while several other debates are pending. The climax of the season will come with the Triangular Meet, when Yale debates at Cambridge and Harvard meets Princeton at Princeton...
...through eyes that select fancies and foibles and reduce all else to hazy indistinction. Only occasionally, when fads are scarce, he must turn to what is merely new, whether or not it possesses the gaudy qualities that best suit his vein. In hard times like these, when Mah Jong, Princeton, the crossword puzzle, channel swimming, Lindbergh, Mayor Thompson and Hickman are no longer news, he is obliged to seize whatever the day offers. Such understanding of an old, yet somehow ever new, problem explains the consideration of the Reading Period in the current issuse of the Lampoon...
...Instead of believing everything their ministers and Sunday School teachers tell them, as they did when children, they now believe everything their Biology professors tell them." So declared Dean Sperry of the Divinity School, with reference to college undergraduates, at a religious conference meeting in Princeton Sunday...
...matter of fact, that was another of the things the Headmasters talked about at Princeton. Just before going to their meeting, 18 of them had been asked to contribute to a symposium. With few exceptions (notably cautious "Rector" Endicott Peabody of proper Groton School) they had pondered and commented on the following hypothesis of the Modern Schoolboy, that "he is more studiously inclined, less given to pranks, with a greater sense of responsibility and capacity for self-government than his predecessors...
...asked one Headmaster after the Princeton meeting: "But what are the schools for if they don't stiffen the country's spine...