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Almost all of a Princetonian's social activity is centered in his club. Here he eats, relaxes, parties, and houses his girl in the weekends. Meals cost about $19 to $21 per week, but for this sum an undergraduate avoids the noise of commons, student waiters, and Howard Johnson's food. Most say it is well worth the price. Scholarship students are called rate men and pay $17 a week...
...reaching its customary stage of mild mania and this year they are tormenting us with a new charge, emanating primarily from Princeton. Our schedule, they claim, lacks virility. We must go on the offensive and you may be interested in a recent exchange of sentiments I had with a Princetonian. I think you will agree that their 24-game winning streak was a bit of a sham...
...sketches of the horrors of the Great Depression. "Conservative, law-abiding farmers organized to march on towns and to loot the stores. Children left home to spare their parents another mouth to feed . . . Millions of American men & women waited in the breadlines ..." The carefree era "about which a fellow Princetonian of mine, F. Scott Fitzgerald, wrote some enduring prose," ended in disaster, for which the Republican government of the time had no cure except "wails and exhortation ... I can remember when shabby men and boys stood on the highways as far north as Jacksonville, thrusting cards into the few passing...
...briefcase police found four books, all from the Law Library. They were: a volume on Civil Rights, a history of the American political movement, review of recent Civil Rights cases, and a copy of the Princetonian. The librarian called the police when the man signed out for three books and left the library with four...
...Also for Stevenson: Harvard's Crimson, Yale's Daily News, Barnard's Bulletin, The Dartmouth. The Daily Princetonian, of which Stevenson was managing editor in his undergraduate days, endorsed Dwight Eisenhower...