Word: princetonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North of the Mason Dixon line Princeton stands alone as the only major university that refuses to admit Negroes. This week the "Daily Princetonian" attacked this policy as being incompatible with the University's announced adherence to democratic principles. The condemnation of white supremacy at Princeton may be just a thorn in the impenetrable sides of those behind-the-coffee-table democrats who believe that equality in the United States means equality for the white race alone; but to all who think America is fighting the war for 13,000,000 Negroes as well, this college newspaper crusade will bring...
...their financial support if Princeton reverses its color policy. It appears that the Southern minority is determined to keep Negroes away from the college gates, while not a single member of the lukewarm and passive university administration has yet had the courage to come out in support of the "Princetonian's" policy...
Such objections merely sidestep an issue which has become even more pressing since our entrance into the war. The "Princetonian" notes that "Japanese propagandists are capitalizing on American racial discrimination to nourish disunion at home and among our one thousand million colored allies. . . . It would be easier to deal with their charges if the kernel of truth contained in them were smaller." It is not only anomalous, but dangerous, to criticize British subjugation of the Indians, to scoff at Hitler's doctrine of blood and soil, while we continue blindly on our way, dealing with our own "burden" like imperialists...
...infield consists of Pennsylvania's slugging first baseman, Art McQuillen, who is now playing pro ball; Captain-elect Bart Harvey, of Harvard, the league's leading base stealer, at second; Stan Zarod, Dartmouth third baseman and the only sophomore to make the first team; and Bob Perins, rangy Princetonian, rounding out the inner defense at short...
...many of his readers to suspect that he is strongly interested in an Axis victory. "To say that we cannot survive in a totalitarian world does not make sense," was the keynote of the full page advertisements which last May in the Crimson, the Yale News, and the Princetonian mocked the ability of the British to defend the status-quo against the Have-Nots, and suggested that "the logic of the situation for France at present may soon appear to the British people to be the logic of the situation for them...