Word: princetonians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the Princetonian to set itself up as dramatic arbiter whose opinion is the sine qua non of theatrical criticism, but a four-to-one preference one way or another is certainly the essence of standardization. And when an aethetic concensus is in favor of the inartistic--or let us say, the hackneyed--deus ex machina as opposed to the more logical and, therefore from a dramatic standopint, the more artistic unhappy ending--it is time to do something beyond complimenting ourselves...
...that any single theory is more correct than any other, but that a four out-of-five agreement on some subject reflects a singularly narrowed, amazingly uncritical, and therefore more or less uncultured, outlock. For just as uniformity predicts narrowness so is breadth inherent in culture. --The Daily Princetonian...
...allied by a certain common denominator, one would expect them to be equally appreciated by the Yale man-about-Chapel-Street, so renowned in ribald Princeton and Harvard verse. So we earnest hope that this balloting will not bring on an epidemic of inferiority complex at either college. Daily Princetonian, March...
...John Farrar in The Daily Princetonian...
...local administration deserves praise for its consideration of the students attending college at the time of the changes, although its deference to parental and graduate opinion and control in other matters is certainly far less commendable than Harvard's indifference to what outsiders may think. Daily Princetonian...