Word: princetons
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DELEGATES from Amherst, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Trinity, Union, Wesleyan, Williams, and Yale met at Springfield, on Wednesday, April 7, Mr. Roberts of Trinity being in the chair. Hamilton did not send representatives, but delegates from Bowdoin were admitted, so that thirteen colleges were represented. The meeting was very harmonious, and a great deal of work was done. The racing rules were revised, and some changes made in the order and language, together with the following more important alterations...
...Hill, in order that more people can see the race and that there shall be no danger of beaching on Ramsdell's Point. The positions of the crews are, numbering from the west shore: 1, Williams; 2, Cornell; 3, Amherst; 4, Bowdoin; 5, Brown; 6, Columbia; 7, Wesleyan; 8, Princeton; 9, Dartmouth; 10, Yale; 11, Trinity; 12, Harvard; 13, Union; 14, Hamilton. This order will be kept for the Freshman and single-scull races also. The races will take place at II o'clock in the morning. I omitted to mention that only graduates or undergraduates will be allowed...
...least four colleges will enter Freshman crews at Saratoga, - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia. Amherst is doubtful about trusting the virgin innocence of Freshmen in such an abode of wickedness, although her University crew have steeled their minds to brave temptation this year...
...PRINCETON is in trouble, according to the Nassau Lit. It appears that, for some unexplained reason, the chamber-work in the college dormitories is done by a "clumsy, dirty set of men, who are better fitted by ability, odor, and appearance to act as scavengers, than to have free access to the parlors and bedrooms of gentlemen." This the Princeton students rightly consider a grievance. They feel the need of the soothing influence of woman's presence, and of the smoothing influence of woman's hand, - especially upon their pillows and bedquilts; and they send forth a noble appeal...
...Nassau Lit. is bent upon improving the world, if it cannot amuse it. Wordsworth and Ignatius Loyola fill nearly half of the last number, and the impartiality with which praises are showered upon each bears witness to the charity, if not to the discrimination, of our Princeton contemporaries...