Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teams of three men each will be chosen, one of which will uphold the affirmative side against Yale orators on next Friday in Cambridge. The second of the teams will defend the negative aspect of the question at Princeton on Saturday night...
Coach Hibben of Princeton, who will cover the game for the advertisers in the Harvard Lampoon, when questioned by reporters regarding the game, said: "I see no reason for the odds being 5 to 1 on the Harvards, for in a game like this it is always possible for the metrical breaks to decide victory. It looks like a swell clash. May the best team...
Looking for the American counterparts of Oxford and Cambridge, persons in the East unquestionably think of Harvard, Yale and Princeton. In the three types of men they turn out there are exceedingly interesting contrasts which any outside observer must have noted...
...Yale man that he is wholesome. He smells of soap and water. When he wears a dinner jacket he gives the impression that he would be more comfortable in something less formal. He finds no particular need to defend himself so long as he beats Harvard and Princeton each year in football. He is content with the world as he finds it and is, in fact, quite normal...
...Princeton, on the other hand, represents the spirit of eternal youth. Her sons are capable of a beautiful emotion. If they do not show it they are afraid outsiders might suspect that they do not love Princeton. No graduate is ever too old to thrill to the singing of "Old Nassau" with his napkin waving on high. Annual atendance at a Triangle Club show assumes the aspect of a religious devotion. Heaven itself must seem to him incomplete if there is no little corner where Princeton men may congregate. --Baltimore Evening...