Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dartmouth and Williams followed Yale as the most popular men's college after Princeton. Yale polled 365 votes and Dartmouth came second with 34. Norma Shearer won a close race from Greta Garbo as the most popular feminine star in the film firmament. Adolph Menjou's margin of popularity over Dougias Fanbanks was 101 to 50 however...
...class of 1927 selected Roper as their favorite coach and football as the most enjoyable sport to watch, while preferring to play tennis. "Tom Jones" was decided the best novel, and, "The Big Parade" headed the list of favorite movies. Bridge is the choice amusement among the seniors at Princeton, and when not playing it they read "The Saturday Evening Post...
...average age of the Princeton class of 1927 at graduation will be 22 years, three months and seven days. The seniors voted sophomore year the hardest and senior year the pleasantest, and 268 members of the class of nearly 400 have never flunked a course at Princeton...
When President Hopkins made his suggestions they were received unsympathetically by football officials of Princeton, Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Brown, Pittsburgh and Syracuse, Even Harvard was cold. The Yale officials made no comment, but it was intimated that Yale would not oppose a conference of Eastern universities to consider athletic changes. The Dartmouth Athletic Council having come out strongly for such a meeting, there is likely to be a free discussion of the program. It certainly brings "reform" to the front--New York Times...
...teams. Over the Charles River course in 1925 W. L. Tibbetts '26 led R. G. Luttman '28 and E. C. Haggerty '27 across the finish line and the one-two three order of those runners brought the Crimson a total of 20 points, while Yale tralled with 47, and Princeton with 66. Last fall Smith and Briggs of Yale showed the pack home, but J. L. Reid '29, Haggerty and Leslie Flaksman '29 followed in that order immediately on the heels of the Blue stars, and the final score stood Harvard 25, Yale 31, Princeton...