Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THIS three-act play by a Princeton undergraduate was first produced by the Theatre Intime at the author's alma mater last winter...
...play dealing with a thinly disguised Princeton, and satisfactorily presents the chief faults which an outsider is likely to find with "Old Nassau." The plot is rather obvious and, the questions it considers are similarly obvious...
...undergraduate think, wear, and do what he pleases at Princeton? The question is answered in the negative, as it would be to a certain degree, anywhere else. Of course, there are places where more freedom in such unimportant things as thinking and such important things as dress and manners may be found than one discovers at Princeton. It is all a matter of degree...
...report of the writer for the Princeton Alumni magazine, who unencouraged by the argument surfeited Princeton undergraduate, prepared a lengthy, careful, statistical survey of the Princeton club is interesting in its tentative recommendations, which are elsewhere printed on this page. The assisement which has preceded them is notable for its more than superficial resemblance to the similar evaluations made by the Harvard Student Council. The assets are: (1) The clubs at present afford the only solution for feeding the upperclassmen. (2) Social advantages (3) Their innocuous position in student politics and activities; the liabilities are: (1) Failure to feed...
...apathy and even boredom that the Princeton undergraduate finds in his own problem, conceived alumni style, is completely natural. Nowhere does one find the affairs of the University discussed with that sure freedom that is found at the dinner of the alumnus who is ten years out from Sever Quadrangle. Improvement, planful aspiration, avowed democratic principle--all these have a way ofturning will-o'-the wisp when the builders of the report, who are either too safely ensconced in the best clubs to care about action, or are alumni like the Princeton investigator, decide quite humanly...