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Recent blasts from the "Daily Princetonian" show that its new board of editor is adopting a more wide-awake attitude toward age-old problems down at Nassau. First came a body blow at a snobbish and impractical club system, and along with it an appeal for a House Plan like Harvard's and Yale's. The late President Wilson gave the college a chance for such an arrangement years ago, but Princetonian sentiment quickly smothered the whole idea...
...week has brought editorial damnation of tutoring school practices which have taken root at Princeton in the last few years. Success promises to come rapidly in this latest campaign, with almost instant college approval and cooperation. The other programs are slower moving, but even the loudest rumblings of the "Princetonian," that king-pin of the impressive Nassau extra-curricular hierarchy, can't change things over night...
Like many another college town, Princeton, N. J. has no daily newspaper. Princeton citizens get their news of the world from papers of nearby Trenton, Philadelphia, Manhattan, local news from the collegiate Princetonian, which has no Sunday edition, from the Herald and Packet, both weeklies...
...last week The Daily Princetonian carried the In & Out Club's first contribution to the university. It was a photograph; professing to be a composite picture of Princeton's 2,100 students-the typical Princeton undergraduate, 1940-style. Next day the composite was found to be a hoax-a retouched photo of swashbuckling Cinemactor Errol Flynn, minus mustache and with a crew haircut. Said the unabashed In & Out Club: "What's wrong with the picture...
Guess you're made of sterner stuff. --The Daily Princetonian...