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Convinced by the example of their Eli brethren that it doesn't take too great an effort to make one's bed for one day at a time and urged on by the Daily Princetonian, the undergraduates of Old Nassau are carrying on a petition campaign to relieve their maids of Sunday duty without reducing their wages. As in Cambridge, the maids come in on the Sabbath for only a few hours, and they do nothing except make the beds of any ambitious youths who have not taken the Biblical phrase "day of rest" too literally...
...Editor of the Princetonian...
...they, ask for if it is possible, and all they ask for is a little Commons courtesy. Someday some waiter is going to get really good and griped, and bash somebody on the head saying; "Here's where the hell your milk is!" Shepard Kimberly '45. From The Dally Princetonian...
Princeton. Eighty-two per cent of the freshman class were willing to fight overseas (compared to 33% a year ago) ; 89% said it was more important to beat Hitler than stay out of war; 36% wanted to fight right away. Said the Princetonian (100% isolationist a year ago): "We . . . believe that the valid debate is over, that isolationists in large measure now amount to merely obstructionists. . . . We urge these people to examine their own consciences, to ask themselves as democratic citizens if it were not better for democracy that they yield as we have yielded...
Born at St. Charles, Mo., three years before the Civil War, Editor Johns studied at Princeton, was a legman on the Princetonian when Woodrow Wilson was editor. Meeting Wilson years later, Johns remarked: "You taught me all I know about journalism, and I taught you all you know about statesmanship." Said Wilson: "You may be right. I used in my last speech something you wrote for the Princetonian." After leaving Princeton, he worked for a while on the old Philadelphia News, founded and edited a paper in his home town...