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...Such a shift in the national feeling about dates has come about since I was in college," Dean of the College Francis R. B. Godolphin says, "that the Princeton of the old days is inadequate. Now boys must have dates every night, and this swing to co-education is not satisfied." That the average Princetonian has two dates a month, according to the college daily paper's poll, proves Godolphin's theory...
Dean of the College Francis R. B. Godolphin frowns on multiple thefts, however, and after the clapper has disappeared once, he brings disciplinary action. "The clappers are too expensive to replace," Godolphin says, "and although they are allowed to keep the first one if they aren't caught, from then on the freshmen can't do any more legal stealing...
...Godolphin has in his office, (besides a collection of rare knives and swords, which he denies using on the culprits) a wastebasket full of captured tools. This collection of implements taken by cops and proctors from unsuccessful freshman thieves includes one poker, two rusty hollow iron pipes, one hammer, one screwdriver, pliers, one stillson wrench, one car tire wrench, and one unidentifiable tool. He says that this basketful is only part of his original set of tools, many of which have been picked up later by their owners...
...graduating class. Last year a giant orange "51" was mysteriously changed to an equally giant "'54" by the then-freshman class. Just as mysteriously the following night it was changed to a "'24," which happens by some coincidence to be the Princeton class of several important University officials, including Godolphin. The culprit has not yet been found...
...class day held every spring, the members of the Tiger senior class poke fun at their masters and deans. Various responses are received, shock, surprise, or distaste, but one man who is noted for his good-humored handling of the situation is Dean of the College FRANCIS R. B. GODOLPHIN (left, as rickshaw boy). Godolphin is shown above halfway through his race around Nassau Hall, dragging a Princeton senior in a rickshaw. According to tradition the race begins with Godolphin as the passenger, but somewhere on the other side the two change, and Godolphin comes out the laborer. Every year...