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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princeton rah-rah is the kind of spirit that sends a student to cocktail parties wearing short plants and knee-length orange-and-black socks, or to a football game in a tatooed jacket depicting a man potted in an ash-can, with the motto, "Sic semper parti pooperus...
...administration's liberal outlook on class spirit isn't characteristic. Much to student annoyance. Princeton has a conservative Dean's Office that contrasts with Harvard's laissezfaire attitude toward students...
According to the dean's office, the purpose of a Princeton education is to "help the individual student discover and develop his inherent powers, and, in the atmosphere of a residential college, to learn how to use them most effectively in cooperation with others...
...Once a student is admitted to Princeton, he finds himself in a centralized campus of high towers and Gothic arches, interspersed here and there with the usual Victorian monstrosities. He lives in a smallish room and has a male biddy, and has to walk to the basement for his bathroom and washroom. This latter difficulty is somewhat lessened by the existence of mop basins on each floor, which Princetonians use for face-washing and other purposes...
...Johnson's is serving in an unfamiliar Gothic environment without its orange roof, and with only six of its 28 flavors. There is no choice for Princetonians between a "Hot Roast Vermont Turkey Sandwich" and "Delicious Fried Clams." Instead of a waitress beaming down with a menu, a fellow student loads the table with platters of institutionalized cooking...