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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although no subsequent cases have developed in Princeton University since the death of Eric Brunnow, one new case was discovered Tuesday in the town. This has provoked even a stricter quarantine of all students, and no little alarm is felt...
Princeton, N. J., Oct. 16, 1916.--Owing to the death of Eric Brunnow '20 from infantile paralysis the Princeton Senior Council at the request of President Hibben voted that undergraduates should remain within the town, except for necessary reasons; should go only to authorized eating places, and should stay away from moving picture shows entirely. The faculty sanitation commission, after examining the case, decided that Brunnow had contracted the disease before coming to Princeton, and that therefore quarantine was unnecessary. The football team as yet has been unaffected by the precautionary measures taken against the disease...
...registers two witnesses to testify to his means of self-support and to his residing in Cambridge the required time. Another quotation from Judge Raymond states, "The applicant for registration must call two witnesses who shall testify under oath. . . ...Those witnesses shall be residents of the ward or town from which the applicant comes. . . . The witness is supposed to testify to the facts which he personally knows. . . . The laws requires that there be three men who have knowledge in the matter and you can see that it would be a perfect farce to say that everything testified there...
...date. In 1852, of the 319 who had been enrolled, only 79, or one fourth of the total came from outside the state of Massachusetts. Of the 240 students coming from within the state only four lived farther west than the Connecticut River, three of these coming from one town...
...battle was formerly a thing of hours and a few square miles; it took its name from a town, and sometimes, when no town was near, from some handy object, Chrysler's Farm, Gaines' Mill, Pittsburg Landing, Shiloh Church. Now a battle is what a campaign used to be, a thing of months, stretching over an expanse of territory, the course of a river, perhaps a province. The battle of Champagne, the battle of Bukowina, the battle of the Dobrudja, are already historic names. In one such battle, as that of the Somme, there may be many small campaigns...