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...came Monday and the free-for-all commenced. As might be expected, Princeton did not take kindly towards the Lampoon's humorous endeavors and the Princetonian took up the fight. In its Monday editorial, it said, "The Lampoon speaks for, but against itself. We want to know whether that periodical reflects as it purports to do, the sentiment of the majority of Harvard's adherents. Princeton undergraduates prefer to believe it does not--but they want definite assurance to that effect...
This seemed to be a perfectly logical explanation and as the Princetonian was happy to accept this, the miniature crisis seemed to have come to a halt. But the teacup had not stopped boiling, it had just slowed to a simmer for a day. On Wednesday, the President of the Lampoon gave his answer to Princeton in particularly blunt terms...
Halton told the Daily Princetonian that he was a personal friend of Col. Archibald B. Roosevelt '17, chairman of the committee. In attacking the appointment of J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 as William James lecturer, Halton called it an example of "abusive liberalism" of such universities as Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton...
...member of the Daily Princetonian, which reported that the majority of Princeton students opposed required religion, said that "there is a great repugnance to dogmatism." He felt that although there were "a good many atheists at Princeton," each student should be free to "decide empirically whether he wanted to go to church...
...game itself didn't matter. No Princetonian could develop much enthusiasm for one that was won this easily, without any thrills in the winning, and was really only a warm-up for Yale. Even before the crowds had left the Stadium, orange pins appeared that said in black letters: "Beat Yale...