Word: springing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Spring is in the air this week, and the University is restless. Class room walls seem but the dusty shells of a dying season and Sever Hall a fit subject for a systematic experiment with dynamite. Watch the professor: he feels it too. If anyone were within miles to observe him during the of attenuated seven-minute interval before his class, he too would be seen to peer dreamily out of the window, to yawn cavernously, and scratch his unhappy neck in anticipation of that soft collar which he is to assume in June. He too is looking forward...
...spring meeting of the Board of Trustees of Princeton University, some important changes, involving serious modifications of the entrance requirements and the course of study offered after entrance, were authorized and have been announced by President Hibben. They are part of the large program of reconstruction which was undertaken immediately after the signing of the armistice...
...Congress is called in special session before then, there will be no funds with which to operate the navy. For this reason, we have to be extremely careful in all expenditures, and can take no steps toward the establishment of naval units or the increase of the reserve this spring, but plans for the organization of the college units should be ready by next fall...
...Hostess House, which has been used primarily by the Radio School, will remain open the rest of this spring and if a success will be continued next year. It was decided to carry on the work of the Hostess House on account of the great demand coming from University men who have been in the service and appreciate the opportunity for social activities that the Red Circle affords...
...news that twenty-nine percent of all eligible undergraduates are taking part in one or another of the four major sports this spring is at least worthy of comment. It will come as a decided surprise to many of the older graduates who in pre-war days were wont to compare eleven men on the football team to the whole seething cheering-sections which gave them lusty support. "Why is there not a chance on some team or crew for every man who wants to take part in a college sport?" these graduates asked. Generally there was an answer...