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...First it smote Dreiser, a contemporary, but for that reason not a sufficiently illustrious scalp. Hence it was found necessary to go back 170 years, to fasten upon an author who has indubitably stood the test of time. Shakespeare's turn is next, we see it coming! Daily Princetonian...
...architecture, that our own earlier unique and dignified American inheritance will be sacrificed, and that a Gothic anachronism will appear on the campus of the University of Virginia, William and Mary or at Harvard as now threatens. May God forbid such desecration--From a communication in The Daily Princetonian...
...practice of vagabonding in classes as carried on at Harvard has now been adopted by Princeton and a column in The Daily Princetonian entitled "The Third Elective" has been instituted to carry announcements of the most noteworthy lectures of the day. "The Student Vagabond" in The Harvard Crimson has accomplished that same purpose for some time and has been considered of valuable aid in announcing topics of the day to students who might be interested in visiting certain classes...
...What is a gain for one such college is also a gain for the other. Loyalty to such a college, being loyalty to the cause which that college shares with others of a like mind, extends itself naturally to these allies and so finds itself renewed and confirmed." Daily Princetonian...
Among the objects of humor which Mr. Herbert finds to be afflicted with this touchiness are domestic servants, policemen, civil servants. Americans, Mussolini, clergymen and plumbers. To which the Lampoon, no doubt, would add Princetonian and the House Planners. But nobody's touchiness will be outraged by the current Lampoon. It is a monstrous fat book, the fattest in all Lampoon history, and it is a parody of that strangely sportive new child of Boston. The Sportsman...