Word: princetonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struggle this year. Their victory in the "cane spree" finals earned them the right to sit on the Princeton side of the field during a football contest with a certain Connecticut college next Saturday. But the Freshmen can doff the dinks by beating their New Haven counterparts, the Daily Princetonian informs...
Little by little, due to what the Princetonian quaintly calls "innumerable broken bones," the sprees acquired regulations. Today they are little more than minor Olympic matches with the Sophomores and Freshmen fielding teams in touch football, softball, track, and topping it off with wrestling bouts for the possession of the grand old cane...
...disappeared from the Tiger campus and up to about two weeks ago it looked as if dinks at Princeton were doomed to extinction. But a mass meeting of the Class of 1950 on October 23 considered the question "to dink or not to dink," and the next morning the Princetonian headline proclaimed "Class Of 1950 Upholds Tradition; Freshmen Without Dinks To Starve...
...Princetonian of October 29 had more to worry about than reports from the battlefronts. More than three fourths of the editorial page is reluctantly relinquished to letters from students who don't like the whole idea...
...letters blame the Princetonian for inciting the struggle which they insist should have been enforced in September, not late October. One Freshman points out the food wastage and another decries the "splitting into factions" of the undergraduate spirit "needed sorely for the football games coming this and the following weekends...