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...Kennedy of the Board of Athletic Control and president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, delivered a blazing address on "Nassau's Athletic Decline in All Sports.'' He blamed the university's poor snowing in sports partially on what he called Princeton's "smoothie complex." After Princeton's dejected showing against Cornell four weeks ago, Lawrence Perry, an old Princetonian who writes a national!}' syndicated sports colyum called For The Game's Sake, sadly took up Chairman Kennedy's lament. Lamented...
...When a discussion of the smoothie complex arises, I am one of that minority which says, 'What of it?' . . . Is it wrong that we are gentlemen? What are we here for? The alumni remember the good old days when Princeton men wore corduroys and shaved only once a week, when the name of Princeton ranked high in the athletic world, but how many of them would give us a job if we walked into their offices dressed that way? Most of us are preparing a cultural background to stand us in good stead during a life of business...
...porticoed yellow mansion "Avalon" in Princeton's Bayard Lane, emerged 79-year-old Dr. Henry Van Dyke, the community's resident Grand Old Man, minister, Wartime Navy chaplain, litterateur (Fisherman's Luck, The Man Behind the Book). He came not to comment on the alleged "smoothie complex" but he had heard that the town council was thinking of routing intercity busses down his and other residential streets. He came to protest. He appealed for the preservation of "the beauty, tranquillity and safety of Princeton, the most beautiful college town in America, as beautiful as any in England...
...interest by virtue of his significant and authoritative refutation of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. The Dutch scientist conceives the universe as being slowly "blown up like a soap-bubble," an idea even more bewildering to the layman than Einstein's "warped space." Though this question is complex enough to make even astronomers' heads swim, its nevertheless illustrative of other disputes that should concern the average man and his beliefs...
Last week in a talk to the university and freshman track candidates, Dr. Kennedy referred to the undergraduates at Princeton as "smoothies", asserting that successful athletics depend upon the desire of the undergraduates to sacrifice soft living, and devote their efforts toward athletic endeavor. The current "smoothie" complex he holds directly responsible for "Princeton's disgraceful sports record of the past few years...