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...blazing address on "Nassau's Athletic Decline in All Sports.'' He blamed the university's poor snowing in sports partially on what he called Princeton's "smoothie complex." After Princeton's dejected showing against Cornell four weeks ago, Lawrence Perry, an old Princetonian who writes a national!}' syndicated sports colyum called For The Game's Sake, sadly took up Chairman Kennedy's lament. Lamented...
...Princetonian feels that this correspondent has undoubtedly diagnosed correctly the discouraging showing of Princeton, Yale and Harvard in a great many early-season games. The cure he prescribes, however, seems a trifle absurd. These three universities as well as several other institutions, originally adopted the ruling because they considered it necessary if football was to be kept within the realm of truly amateur sport. It would, then appear far from sensible to forsake that principle simply in order to compete with and defeat colleges which do not respect the same or similar principles. --Daily Princetonian...
...Princetonian, in its leading editorial Saturday, stressed the desirability of instituting 150-pound football as a recognized sport at Princeton. Today we wish to describe the essentials of the organization at Yale and Harvard, where the sport has been successfully tried, and then to offer what we think would be the most logical basis upon which to inaugurate the sport at Princeton...
...next fall in accordance with a plan similar to that outlined above. The popularity which it has experienced at those places where it has been tried, and the fact that it is to be adopted at other institutions next year, augur well for the game's success here. The Princetonian...
...cheer, thus: "Nassau!" Note that the explosive accent is on the final syllable, the vocalization fairly well drawn out, and a very open vowel sound given to the second half of the word. Compare the concluding line of our college hymn: "Three cheers for Old Nassau." --Daily Princetonian...