Word: princetonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large dances at Princeton, including next spring's Junior Prom, have been cancelled at the order of Christian Gaus, dean of the college, the Daily Princetonian reported last week. This action was in accordance with a request made last summer by Army and Navy officials that all unnecessary extra-curricular activities be abandoned, and a more recent request by the Office of Defense Transportation urging civilians not to use transportation facilities for pleasure purposes...
Prodded by a campaign that started in the "Daily Princetonian" last spring, Princeton University authorities have announced a ban on tutoring schools, with disciplinary measures to back it up. Reminiscent of similar action by Harvard over two years ago, the measure included a provision for a scholastic aid committee similar to Harvard's Board of Supervisors...
...have been cramming, outlining, and spotting exams for the Nassaumen have ceded to the edict and closed their doors to panting students. They have given in to panting students. They have given in to pressure, mainly from undergraduate sources, that started as long ago as April 1940, when the "Princetonian" followed up a CRIMSON editorial campaign against them...
...most important of all is that the "Princetonian" realizes that the Negro problem can only be solved piecemeal. The Fourteenth Amendment has no value unless the majority of Americans are convinced that the black race can exist side by side with the whites without overrunning them. Only by little concessions can we slowly, but surely, clear the way for this most fundamental principle of race equality...
...Princetonian" has taken a daring step in the midst of powerful opposition. As a measure to translate ideals into reality, it deserves the unqualified approval of all college men. As a measure taken during a war in which the Negro is with good reason beginning to wonder what he would lose by a Nazi victory, it reflects a policy which must now penetrate all sections of the nation. The Negro problem at Princeton has now approached a crisis from which there is no retreat...