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...current issue of the Alumni Weekly appears a curiously skeptical editorial. . . . It "humbly suggests" that the Princetonian adduce facts and figures to establish its contention that a general decline of interest in extra-curricular activities marks the Princeton Campus today. "Has the Princetonian made a thorough survey?" asks the Weekly (which has a "trace of the Missourian" in its make-up). If not, let its candidates set to work compiling statistics on competitions and squad turn-outs for the last five years in order that it may speak with authority...
...article published in the Daily Princetonian, Dr. Mather A. Abbott discusses the relation of Preparatory Schools to the individualism creed of the colleges. Quite rightly, we believe, he absolves the schools and their emphasis upon spirit from blame, for the college reaction. It is a characteristic fostered by men of college age, independent of school training to disregard as superfluous all community interests which do not react to the immediate satisfaction of the individual. Dr. Abbott writes, "let us stick to the old order, if so-called individualism is going to bring to pass the current state of disinterestedness...
...gones as far as the Princeton-Crimson breakup of four years ago is concerned. Nothing was forthcoming as to Princeton's ideas on the subject, but a reaction is expected. The original statement came from William J. Bingham, director of athletics at Cambridge, following heated demands of the "Princetonian" and the "Harvard Crimson" that the breach be mended as soon as possible...
...Princeton-Harvard football game before 1936 improbable. But in the other sports the colleges are not at cross purposes. Meetings in these can take place without great delay, as the sports captains, backed by student sentiment apparently unanimous, desire. Leaders of the Princeton undergraduates have said in "The Princetonian": It is our opinion that athletic relations, football excepted, should be resumed with Harvard not at some distant date but immediately." And the Harvard Student Council replies: "Harvard-Princeton competition cannot take place too soon...
...Princeton resolution from the three upper class presidents, the chairman of the undergraduate council and all major and minor sports captains. Together the two declarations form clear evidence of the cordial feeling between the present student bodies and strongly support the earlier demands of both the 'Crimson' and the 'Princetonian...