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...product of some of our more august contemporaries, we are lead to the conviction that culture of the collegiate Fourth Estate in the more urban and intellectually polished sections of our eastern United States is highly chimerical. Specifically do we refer to the current front pages of the "Daily Princetonian" and the "Harvard Crimson," whose make-ups bear voluminous descriptive stories of basketball games, alumni meetings, and polo contests, with too infrequent reference to matters of national and international import...
...they should take adequate measures to protect investors from artificial depression of the price of securities for speculative profit." ¶ President Hoover asked Congress to appropriate $1,000,000 for Federal participation in the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. ¶The President appointed James H. Douglas Jr., 33, Princetonian ('20) and partner in Field, Glore & Co., Chicago investment house, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
There remains a question about the future. It seems to the Princetonian that in time, when rigorous retrenchment will no longer be essential, the money available should not be employed again for increasing schedules of a few teams and for luxuries such as vacation trips. Rather let this money, whatever the amount, be devoted to other ends such as vitalizing Princeton's starving, struggling and embryonic intramural athletics, so shamefully in need of financial backing for efficient organization. Not temporary but permanent and diligent elimination of super fluous athletic expenditures, in the interest of more needy phases of the University...
...Strawbridge, who was joined by Quaker Isaac H. Clothier. Into the big Clothier family, in 1885. was born Robert Clarkson Clothier. His father, brother of the founder, was by this time become Presbyterian and rich. Young Bob went to Princeton, where he became editor-in-chief of the Daily Princetonian and a member of the senior council. A good scholar though no Phi Beta Kappa man, he showed no interest in his family's mercantile tradition. "Bob" Clothier became employment manager of Curtis Publishing Co., then, in 1917, a member of the War Department's committee on classification...
...Daily must suffer these degradations. We used to think that we were mighty scribes wielding a potent force in our community. But we're not. We're just a common depository for things nobody else wants. We're just a waste-basket in the great scheme of things. --Daily Princetonian...