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...think some undergraduates have the feeling that the trustees turned down the proposal for sexual reasons," Princeton Dean Laughlin told the Princetonian. "I doubt that impression is quite accurate...
Faced with a refusal by trustees to extend visiting hours for women in the dormitories from 9 p.m. until midnight on all Fridays, the editors of the Daily Princetonian decided that "coeducation is the solution for Princeton's social illness. The development of a young man's mind," purred the Tiger cubs disarmingly, "is not only not impeded but is enhanced by normal contact with women." Princeton's President Robert F. Goheen, 45, was not about to be mousetrapped. He reserved comment "until my next press conference" (as yet unscheduled), but he covered the topic pretty well...
Scott Fitzgerald would today be forgotten as a Princetonian playboy who was a silly young man in a silly time-the '20s-were it not for the fact that he was a silly young man of genius. It was his genius to vibrate like a tuning fork to the music of his time. When the '20s died on Black Thursday of 1929 and the times went bad, Fitzgerald went sour with them. Although he wrote better, he was on the wrong note; having been monstrously overrewarded for his early tripe, he was cruelly undervalued when-after heroic effort...
Princeton president Robert F. Goheen condemned the disturbance as a "shocking display of individual and collective hooliganism," the Daily Princetonian reported. "As a surrender to raw, mass impulse," Goheen said, "and as an occasion for mob violence, any riot is reprehensible." Officials have indicated that several students may be expelled...
...What's wrong with Princeton's lacrosse team?" the Daily Princetonian asked Tuesday...