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...with a two-fold purpose in mind that the "Princetonian", "Crimson" and "News" now launch an annual Princeton-Harvard-Yale conference on public affairs. Not only does such a movement serve the obvious requirement of stimulating undergraduate interest in the important questions of government today, but it also represents a significant development in the field of educational cooperation among these three institutions, whose common intellectual heritage demands a closer alliance than now exists...
...initiating the conference idea and in planning the inaugural session here this year, the "Princetonian" has had as its objective the presentation of an opportunity for selected undergraduates and faculty members of the three universities to meet prominent leaders in government and business, and to discuss with them in a straightforward and informal manner the important problems arising out of the vital topic "Government and Economic Security...
...joint effort to face the primary problems in the realm of public affairs. Out of such a movement can only come a better comprehension of those questions in which every citizen should have an active interest, and a better mutual relationship in the pursuit of progressive education. --The Daily Princetonian...
Other men will be added to this list before the Conference, which is sponsored by the CRIMSON, the daily Princetonian, and the Yale News, particularly from the Business group...
Many a Princeton undergraduate was mystified one morning last fortnight when he read this manifesto in the Daily Princetonian. Members of Terrace Club, upper-class eating sodality, were not so puzzled. The dank midwinter in semi-isolated Princeton is a tedious time. Between long games of Monopoly and billiards and work on an honors thesis about Machiavelli, Senior Lewis Jefferson Gorin, a small, grave Terrace member, had fallen to brooding about the way his elders and betters run the world. In the midst of these reveries, Congress had voted to cash the soldiers' Bonus in full ten years before...