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...days, rudely called from the arms of Morpheus by the peal of Old Nassau, which seems even yet in the still, small hours of the morning to summon men to a ghostly service, they may innocently consider to themselves the sublime beauty and glorious value of ancient traditions. --The Princetonian...
...intercollegiate 1,500-metre event, and Lovelock, a slim New Zealander from Dunedin where he ran three years for Otago University, had been sizing each other up. As a medical student, Jack Lovelock did not fail to notice with respect the power ful back muscles which the Princetonian had developed with a medicine ball to such an extent that his arms swing wider than is orthodox when running. Bonthron knew that Lovelock had run a mile against Yale-Harvard week before in 4:12.6, his best time, and was benefiting by the exhilaration which athletes usually feel for the first...
...comparison of the records of prep school men and high school men at Harvard, Dartmouth and Princeton, quoted in today's "Princetonian" from the May issue of the "Harvard Advocate," presents some very interesting material. The figures show that at Harvard, where there is an approximately equal number of prep school and high school men, and at Princeton, where prep school men overwhelmingly predominate, the latter win the larger share of social and athletic honors. At Dartmouth, on the other hand, where public school graduates predominate, they suffer no inferiority in college activities. Scholastically, at all three colleges, public school...
...over more undemocratic and snobbish, but that it should make an effect to preserve an intelligently worked out proportion between the two groups of entreats a preparation which, other considerations aside, would not put the high school man in such a minority that he would feel hopelessly overwhelmed. The Princetonian...
...stick at their posts through the crisis, perhaps longer. Mr. Ballantine, a chunky Harvard lawyer from Oyster Bay, L. I., backstopped Secretary Woodin, pointing up matters of policy for him to yes-or-no. Like a chief of staff Chicago's Jim Douglas, an erect and handsome young Princetonian (class of 1920), was on the Treasury end of telegraph wires lo the twelve Federal Reserve banks, to the 48 state banking departments, to the clearing houses of the nation. He whipped out orders faster than an army of subordinates could execute them...