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...certain inevitable mould by the time he has run the gamut of extra-curricular activities, clubs, week-ends and final comprehensives--must be recognized as having an element of truth. There certainly is a definite "Princeton manner" and attitude toward life which is more especially observable in the Princetonian when he is away from college and alone in an alien society. Debutantes call it "smoothness" and idolize it, but others are inclined to characterize it as everything from "snobbishness" to "pseudo-sophistication." And it has its undesirable features as well as its advantages...
...very desirable member of the society in which he moves. But the fact remains that he is a hard person to know for what he really is, that sooner or later the world will wash off his veneer, and that enthusiasm is the first requisite for achievement. --Daily Princetonian...
More favorable to Harvard than the score of the contest is the feeling that this occasion seems to have aroused in the rival university as expressed in an editorial from the Princetonian in an adjoining column. This continuation of the friendly feeling between the two institutions that has been growing during recent years and has resulted in the official and actual resumption of athletic relations should have further results than merely giving pleasure to those who have missed the customary Princeton-Harvard contests. It should impress the athletic authorities with a feeling which is so prevalent among the undergraduate bodies...
This paints a happy future for the average Princetonian. A natural curiosity regarding Yale futures immediately stimulates speculation and arouses a feeling that a similar investigation should be made of the alumni's pecuniary fortunes here...
...with this plan last year, has dispensed with it this season. We too question the advisability of the policy in view of the limited and debatable benefits it confers, and feel that a return of the coach to the bench might be of greater advantage to the players. --Daily Princetonian...