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News from Princeton that The Daily Princetonian is renewing its perennial battle against--compulsory chapel attendance is both welcome and disturbing-- welcome in the indication that a worthy cause is being vigorously prosecuted, and disturbing in the forced realization that the authorities of one of America's greatest universities are so old-fashioned as to cling to a long outmoded institution...
...lethargy and push it into the outskirts of the public struggle is a problem to tax the wisdom of a sage. A not entirely hopeless problem, however. Joe College, as we have seen, has passed on, and in his time he, too, must have seemed an irremediable "evil." --The Princetonian...
...genuinely religious as Elliott Speer was when he entered the drinking, carousing Princeton of Scott Fitzgerald was to be cynically labeled a "Christer." At that time his Princetonian father. Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, world-traveled senior secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, was at the height of his fame as the most powerfully emotional preacher of his day. Classmates who met Elliott Speer five years out of college found an affable young man no less religious but well-geared to his own generation. Northfield quickly felt his liberalizing touch. He allowed his boys to smoke, to have parties...
...contactman in Germany, he revealed, was his son James Wideman Lee II. Princeton, 1929, recalls "Jim" Lee as a tall, personable youth who helped edit the Daily Princetonian. Now 28, he is paid $33,000 a year for handing his father's counsel and significant U. S. newspaper clippings to I. G. Farbenindustrie, which hands them on to the German Government...
...Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Petrograd, Cape Town. An administrative unit, the School embraces the College Departments of Politics, Economics, History and Modern Languages. It has upped enrollment every year, this year reached the limit of 100 with many an applicant turned away for inadequate scholarship. Its students are campus leaders-Princetonian editors, football men, class presidents. They spend their summers living abroad in native homes, attending government conferences. Each year the School has five "confer-ences on public affairs" of its own. From outside come topnotch authorities to inform and argue. Then students pretend they are a Senate committee...