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...dispatch from the Daily Princetonian takes the same attitude of resignation...
...Marion LeRoy Burton and first filled by Poet Robert Frost. The chosen was Author Jesse Lynch Williams of Manhattan, onetime (1921) President of the Authors' League, Pulitzer Prize winner (1917, for his play, Why Marry?), novelist and short-story writer of the same kindly school as his fellow Princetonian, Booth Tarkington, and his good friend Julian Street. Mr. Williams, a calm, beetle-browed gentleman who this week turned 54, has not the air of a professional litterateur. Rather does he seem an urbane, drily humorous gentleman of comfortable means and considerable social distinction. During his year's residence...
...Highest honor in college, Phi Beta Kappa; most respected extra-curricular activity, Princetonian; favorite professor, McClellan; favorite preceptor, Nylander; favorite coach, Fitzpatrick; favorite dormitory, '79; favorite sport to watch, football; favorite sport to play, tennis; favorite novel, "Tom Jones"; favorite poem, "If"; favorite play, "Cyrano de Bergerac"; favorite movie, "The Woman of Paris"; favorite fiction writer, "Day" Edgar; favorite artist, Coles Phillips; favorite poet, Byron; worst poet, "Helz-Belz"; favorite newspaper, New York Times; favorite magazine, Saturday Evening Post...
...University, if once aroused, is overwhelmingly in favor of granting it its proper place among the major sports. At the same time we realize that it takes just about an even ton of dynamite to stir the majority of the undergraduates and undergraduate organizations into action. --Daily Princetonian...
...grass, and refuse to change clothes more than three times a day--and they flaunt their insubordination in the faces of the Sophomores. It is easy to see that the situation has become unbearable, for the Chairman of the Sophomore Vigilance Committee in a letter to the Princetonian complains of Princeton indifference on this all-important question. In spite of the fact that "the 1924 Senior Council, amid its stormy regime, took a definite stand in favor of Freshman customs", and in spite of the fact that "the concensus of undergraduate opinion was in favor of even stricter Freshman customs...