Word: princeton
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President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University has accepted Harvard's invitation and will deliver the Godkin lectures here in April, it was announced last night. President Hibben's acceptance, makes it clear that the scholastic good will existent between the two universities is in no way affected by the break in athletic relations. President Hibben will lecture on Tuesday, April 26, and Thursday, April...
...issue to which I refer was that of Friday Jan. 28. There on the front page in the left hand column was given prominence to the most beautiful bit of balderdash on the subject of alleged "dirty football" by Princeton, that has yet appeared. I say this with all due respect to the efforts in that direction of Messrs. Hubbard and Hardwick. One, Braden, who entered Harvard in the autumn of 1920 and graduated in 1926, accuses the 1919 Princeton team of having, intentionally and with malice afore-thought, inflicted damage to his big brother's nose, to the cost...
...hearing of this malevolently planned and accurately executed plot from some of his Princeton acquaintances George Braden was so outraged that he changed his allegiance from Princeton to Harvard...
...coming trip had nothing to do with booking football games however. Bingham will make contacts with Harvard men in other sections of the country, and will supply first-hand information of the Harvard official attitude on incidents leading up to Princeton action...
Much more of this nonsense from those who purport to be their graduates and Harvard and Princeton will suffer a loss of public esteem. They are generally considered the leading American colleges, a rank from which some feel they have already fallen. They deserve better publicity than this affords them. Spectator hopes that since the matter has been dragged out on the carpet again. It will now be conclusively closed. True American intercollegiate sportsmanship demands this for its own self-respect. Columbia Spectator