Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With state and city universities snowballing along to ever huger proportions, privately endowed universities have lately felt it necessary for fame's sake, to advertise that their aim is "quality, not quantity." Harvard, Yale and Princeton have also stressed the point that they are "national" universities. And last week Yale, standing twelfth in point of size among the 86 representative institutions included in the Boston Transcript's annual survey,* pointed to itself as "most national" of the so-called Big Three. Taking the data of the classes of 1926 to 1929 inclusive, Yale proved itself Big Three favorite...
Yale States: New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, California, Oregon, Iowa, Washington, North Dakota, Minnesota, District of Columbia. Ties: with Princeton in Illinois; with Harvard in Utah...
...Princeton States: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Nevada. Tie: with Harvard for Mississippi...
Harvard and Princeton are the two American universities with the largest representation at Oxford and the only two which have established clubs for their graduates there. At the present time the Princeton Club has a membership of 15, while the Harvard Club has a roster of 12, Yale and the University of California some next in the size of their delegations, but neither group is as yet large enough to justify the formation of a club...
...series given every April on "The Essentials of Free Government and the duties of the Citizen" or some phase of that subject has maintained the standard established by Lord Bryce, its first lecturer, and continued by such men as President Eliot. Mr. Hibben, distinguished not only as President of Princeton University but also for his scholarly work in philosophy, and more particularly the philosophy of the state, is a happy choice to give the lectures...