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Conceived five years ago and made possible as a tribute to Princeton's sport by a group of Princeton sportsmen headed by Henry Fairfield Osborn Jr., the canvases were the work of shy, spectacled William Yarrow, 43, no Princetonian, but a well-known portraitist who divided his time between Dublin, N. H. and Florence, Italy to compose the triumphs of the Orange & the Black. Big, bold figures drawn from undergraduate models with technical advice from coaches and team captains, Artist Yarrow's works depict a relay race in which Princeton has the inside track and a Yale runner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Athletes & Eggs | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

...News," commendable as its new policies are, has in this respect, we believe, stumbled upon the fallacy common to so many of the half-baked "progressive" educators whose main trouble is that they want, in education, a pleasant diffusion of superficial information. Daily Princetonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale and Super-Scholars | 2/6/1935 | See Source »

...alter their opinion. Drop in the bucket though it may have been, the money which rolled from the Hearstian coffers to smooth the surface can be written in the ledger with red ink. Mr. Hearst, it would seem, is pinning too much faith in human stupidity. The Daily Princetonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hearst Waves a New Banner | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

...Note--The following editorial appeared in yesterday's Daily Princetonian, Princeton undergraduate daily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Renewed Relations | 11/3/1934 | See Source »

...Princeton men rioted three days because chapel prayers were too long, got them cut by one-third. Last week the Daily Princetonian reported that Princeton men now rudely talk, read newspapers, play tick-tack-toe and salvo during Sunday services in their new $2,000,000 chapel. Excitedly launched was a campaign against "forced, hypocritical and disinterested'' chapel attendance, compulsory every other Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At the Universities | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

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