Word: princeton
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...Princeton and House Planners Touchy...
...Gastonia was named for William Gaston (1788-1844)-Princeton graduate (1796), member of the 13th and 14th Congresses from North Carolina, Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (1833-1844), friend of Webster and Clay-and not for his later kinsman, onetime (1875-76) Governor William Gaston of Massachusetts, as stated by TIME, April 8. Carolina's Judge Gaston, for his character and learning, was elected to the bench in spite of a provision of the State Constitution then barring Roman Catholics from public office...
John William Davis, 1924 Democratic presidential nominee, onetime (1918-21) Ambassador to Great Britain, last week delivered the annual Stafford Little lectures at Princeton University.* His subject: "Party Government in the United States." In his first lectures he said: "A little more genuine and widespread effort in the line of strict party service by our so-called 'best citizens' would work a greater revival in this country than all the prayers and preachments of all the reformers." In his second lecture, after mocking at the pretentious, windy, ambiguous pronouncements of the quadrennial party platforms, he said...
When the first year men meet M. I. T. the Engineers will have had their first trails of the season for they row Princeton over a mile and three quarters course this afternoon. The 1932 eight will also oppose Cornell on May 11 and will then enter a period of intensive training prior to the Yale race at New London on June...
Speaking on the subject, Resolved; That the governments of the world should adopt a system of compulsory arbitration in international disputes, the Freshman affirmative debating team defeated the Princeton Freshmen by a two to one decision last night in the New Lecture Hall before a small and unenthusiastic audience...