Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newspaper cartoonists for a decade have clothed the college undergraduate in raccoon-skin coat, baggy trousers, battered and blighted felt hat. Such were the sacerdotal vestments of the initiate "collegian." But last week, Princeton's witty and learned Dean Christian Gauss hailed the passing of the coonskin. Said he: "Undergraduates who wear coonskin coats now are not nearly so jaunty about it as they used to be; they are quite properly a little shamefaced. Their Eskimoish enduements are relics of the past age of 'collegiatism.' Students now wear them for lack of polo coats or Chesterfields...
...tell an inquisitive public, New York's American Institute last week conducted another of its popular lectures on scientific topics. Speaker was Edmund Newton Harvey, professor of physiology at Princeton and authority on chemiluminescence for the National Research Council.* After explaining that luminescence in living matter is not phosphorescence and has nothing to do with phosphorus, he had a simple story to tell...
...Carnegie Institution of Washington. Leader of the expedition was Dr. C. M. Yonge, Englishman, whose essays on marine science, Vueer Fish, Brentano's has just published ($2.50). Mrs. Harvey, as Dr. Ethel Nicholson Browne, taught biology at Wellesley and Cornell until their marriage in 1916. They live at Princeton, have two sons...
...Daily Princetonian pulled a publicity stunt. It telegraphed many a prominent man asking: If you had only 24 more hours to live, what would you do with the time? Prepaid, the telegraphic query came to Mr. Carlton. Immediately he wired back: "I would spend it in prayer for Princeton...
...tournament was marked by the appearance for the first time of a Western Conference team, Ohio State. Other entrants, besides those mentioned above, included Columbia, whose sabre team placed second, Navy, N. Y. U., Dartmouth, Princeton, and Cornell...