Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herrick Bond-lately formed a law firm in Washington. They called the partnership Donovan & Bond. It made a hole in the Treasury-the post Mr. Bond had occupied as Assistant Secretary. Last week President Hoover very neatly filled that hole by the appointment of Walter Ewin Hope, Manhattan lawyer. Princeton men throughout the land felt happier because their college had been accorded greater representation in official Washington by this "drafting" of one of their distinguished members...
Assistant Secretary Hope, 50, was born in Philadelphia. From Princeton he was graduated in 1901. During the War he served as a dollar-a-year-man in the U. S. Fuel Administration. His two chief interests: New York charities; Princeton University. For three years (1914-17) he was chairman of the Princeton Graduate Council. For another three years (1924-27) he was president of the Princeton Club of New York. He is a university life trustee member of its Administrative Committee, chairman of its Library Committee...
...report is in part false and in toto so misleading. ..." New York University-"[Our] athletics are in control of the faculty and they keep [our] sport clean." President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth-"I pass the report over as inconsequential at this time." Football Coach William Winston Roper of Princeton-"In ten years of coaching I've never made an effort to recruit a schoolboy athlete." Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes of Columbia: "We at Columbia College have no athletic scholarships...
...report attempts the impossible in its striving for generalizations on football. Its attendant evils are largely endemic throughout the East, yet we are fully aware that the Middle and Far West have gone berserk over the sport. The futility of classifying Harvard and Princeton in the motley group of colleges and universities guilty of proselyting and commercialism is a case in point. It is regrettable that these two universities have been denied the first flush of exoneration that it was Yale's good fortune to receive, but their convincing refutation of the charges which were leveled against them...
...that the college problem lies "in part in eliminating those who are unable or unwilling to make the effort and make it fruitfully." All good Brown men were proud to hear President Barbour modestly proclaim: "Brown yields to her sisters only: Harvard, William & Mary, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Columbia...