Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Avenue, ostensibly dancing with debutantes but really seeking the acquaintance of prominent business men. The goal of undergraduate life at Yale, according to Mr. Pringle, is to make a final club, having achieved which the young man concentrates upon more prominent acquaintances and the search for a rich wife. Princeton Mr. Pringle finds more democratic than Yale, but also infested with young men "on the make," and Harvard is better in that "charm" may be a substitute for success in student activities...
Died. Edward Palmer York, 63, Manhattan architect (York & Sawyer?Bowery Savings Bank, Guaranty Trust Building, Pershing Square Building), of Princeton, N. J. & Stonington, Conn.; after an operation; in Manhattan. Like many a famed architect, Mr. York served his apprenticeship with McKim...
Well, even if you only like poetry, that's almost as though you wrote it. I love poetry, and that's what makes me write it, I suppose. Well, perhaps you could hardly call it poetry. I mean a Harvard man wouldn't. There's a Princeton fellow who teaches sloyd at the camp on the other side of the lake, and he said that the lines were so filled with--well, he named it right out--passion, that they fairly seethed. Seethed. Well (No, thanks awfully, I'm quite comfortable just here, this way), I admit I had sometimes...
This new type of impassioned revival has swept from place to place, from college to college. Princeton, where the first headquarters were set up, was the first to banish all exponents of the new system. Not long afterwards also suffering from a similar agitation, Oxford students issued a loud and trenchant warning against what they believed harmful to the best interests of the University...
...Proof for above statements may be had in all issues of TIME for 1928. Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton...