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Princeton's undergraduate newspaper, the Daily Princetonian, today announced its support of General Dwight D. Eisenhower in his campaign for election to the presidency...
...managed to drop one him, however, and that concerned a letter the senior had written and sent to people around the nation while a sophomore, urging an armistice in Korea and the return to America of all American soldiers there. It also concerned a pro Chinese letter to the Princetonian last year. Apparently this was what George Orwell described as thoughterime...
...must many Americans, like James Crawford of San Francisco [who objected to Adlai Stevenson's "Princetonian" accent-TIME, Aug. 11], demand the homespun type for our public offices? ... I find the American fetishism for backwoods utterance a trifle tiresome and completely childish. At election time, surely no one of intelligence will measure a man's capabilities by the manner in which he pronounces a word...
...campus of Princeton University, four studies, eight bedrooms and a bathroom had been combined into an undergraduate's idea of a comfortable duplex apartment. There, in the days when Harding was in the White House and F. Scott Fitzgerald chased his gin-filled grail, roomed nine Princetonians (Class of '22). One of them was a fellow always in a bustle about various campus activities (Daily Princetonian, Senior Council, etc.), and who had, in the words of one of his roommates, "a short, quick walk and a funny nose." For these characteristics he was nicknamed "Rabbit," and his roommates...
...Twain on the subject of his vice presidential grandfather: Philologists sweat and lexicographers bray, But the best they can do is to call him Adlay. But at longshoremen's picnics, where accents are high, Fair Harvard's not present, so they call him Ad-lie. Longshoremen notwithstanding, Princetonian Stevenson insists that the Harvards had it right...