Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their annual dinner in the University dining hall, Princeton seniors passed judgement upon themselves and contemporary, civilization in general recently. Startling disclosures were revealed in the seniors' voting statistics announced at the banquet. Having voted girls as their favorite study, the 1927 Princetonians selected Harvard after Smith and Vassar as the most popular women's college. Harvard again came in for its share of good natured sarcasm when many seniors answered the question: "What has 1927 done for Princeton?" by saying, "dropped Harvard...
Writing last March (TiME, March 28) to John Grier Hibben, President of Princeton, Andrew W. Mellon, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, said, according to the published, uncontradicted version of his letter: "All our principal debtors are already receiving from Germany more than enough to pay their debts to the United States. . . ." Last week Mr. Mellon said he had written: "All our principal debtors except Great Britain are already, etc." The words "except Great Britain" had somehow been "inadvertently omitted...
...students, as yet at least, are unaffected by Bolshevism, and anti-foreignism amongst the Chinese people is the exception rather than the rule. "I turned over the chair of mathematics at Boone to a Chinese gentleman who is a graduate of Columbia. He furthermore took a postgraduate course at Princeton. He is anti-Bolshevik, and, while, essentially pro-Chinese, he is nevertheless strongly pro-America. I fully expect that he will carry on the good work in China quite as well as I would be able to do it myself...
Howard pitched at Middlesex, but on coming to the University, he was made over into an infielder and was a regular on the nine two years ago until he was struck in the eye by a batted ball in practice before the Princeton game. This season Coach F. G. Mitchell has been endeavoring again to form him into a moundsman...
Last Saturday a rough and tough Princeton team set foot on the hallowed soil of Cambridge. Nine men in old clothes filed out--of the CRIMSON building with clubs over their shoulders to meet the strangers from New Jersey. It was the first conflict between the warriors of the two colleges this spring. They crossed bats on Soldiers Field. A furious mound battle waxed hot for hours under the vigilant eye of Boston police. Neither side could get the advantage. Darkness came with the score tied. They carried the fight indoors. Banquetting followed. At 3 next morning empty cases were...