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...football game will be accorded the privileges of students in the University, at Memorial Hall. If they wish to eat there, they have only to say at the desk that they are Princeton men to be allowed these privileges. Such men will be allowed to purchase meals at regular transient prices without the necessity of being introduced by some member of the University...
...other day I went into Memorial Hall for a transient lunch. In the course of the passing moments, I was vastly amused by my paradoxical school-mates...
...officer will desire, to become affiliated with one "camp," which includes his own home town, rather than with a college group that lasts only the four years of his stay in Cambridge. The value of the separate units will lie in their permanence; a Harvard Legion would have a transient membership. Then, too, we doubt the interest which the average student, occupied with many other activities, would take in such a branch organization. Let us support, the American Legion by all means, but let us support the founding of permanent local posts rather than create subordinate branches in the colleges...
With firm confidence in the ultimate mercy of that Providence which regulates all things transient and trivial in the minds of men, I enter the lists of the educational combat as an humble suppliant, who only desires to know why these things...
Tonight the Freshman class meets together for the first time in its history, the beginning of innumerable reunions as long as the lives of the members of the class shall last. There will be speech-making, which may be borne, and refreshments, which are pleasant though transient, and acquaintanship to mark the beginning of friendship...