Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intercollegiate division Harvard is conceded the best chance to win. Only Yale, Princeton and Pennsylvania Military College are represented in this class besides the Crimson riders, who play Yale in the first round match on next Friday. The finals in this event will be held on Wednesday, March...
...Princeton has a new claim to distinction. Recently the Alumni Weekly discovered that the graduates of the New Jersey university have spent more years in the White House than those of any other institution in the country. The race for this honor was close, with the Tiger's victory depending upon a half year's margin over Harvard. But a win obviously is a win, and the prize goes to Princeton...
...inability of two parties to compete on unequal preparation is manifest, Princeton with a divisional system complete in two years. Yale with a system quite as dissimilar, Cambridge under a totally different conception of the curriculum, can scarcely compete with Harvard under a divisional plan in absolute accord with the terms of the competition. Harvard has made its own rules. This would be an obvious stumbling block in any field of competition. And particularly in the field of scholarship, one finds no definite limits, no rules of the game, whereby one and all may compete on the same grounds...
...University, in England, to participate in the second competition this year, but the Britons declined for reasons not announced. A challenge then was sent to Yale for an examination on any number of subjects, but this likewise came to enough. Previously the University had tried to make arrangements with Princeton, but in this case the difference in the systems of curriculum prevented a fair match...
...Here at Princeton following President Wilson's memorable advocacy of the "Quadrangle Plan" in 1907, we have had for some fifteen years, in our Graduate College, a demonstration of this idea as applied to graduate students. The Graduate College, as we have developed it, has become a distinguished characteristic of our university organization...