Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hunner year at least. Anither writer chiel, that foonded the city o' Gait, Ontario, and hauds a place in the latest edition o' Wabster's International Dictionary, some 90 year after his daith, was a "gaping Ayrshire yokel," tae. An' Dr. McCosh, President o' Princeton College, Princeton, N. J., was anither. An' sae was Lord Stevenson, famed controller o' rubber, (apologies tae TIME here) who made Herbert Hoover sae jumpy two or three year sin' that some o' oor American papers said that Herbert got his feegurs sae badly jumle...
...Coach Roper of Princeton disappointed those who know most about Princeton teams in winning his first game by the largest score which Princeton has effected since the end of the War; 50?0, over Vermont...
Intelligence, however, gags at the off-quoted New Haven aphorism: Princeton boys, Harvard scholars, Yale men, though heretofore it has seemed to many impossible thoroughly to do anything intellectual without assuming the title of scholar. It is doubtful if the amount of independent research work done in any undergraduate department can do more than develop the initiative and mental independence of the person involved. Scholarship only becomes dangerous when it centers interest on the piddling detail at the expense of the panorama of truth. Hardly before a man becomes a Ph.D. can he be said to have lost anything...
James McCauley Landis (Princeton 1921) young and popular professor at Harvard Law, was previously secretary to Justice Brandeis...
...very glad I chose Harvard, Princeton was offered, but upon inquiring I was told that it bore more resemblance to a country dub than a university and that Harvard was the most cosmopolitan of your American colleges...