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...guess might even be hazarded that the decision will effect some change. For when a question becomes sufficiently important to be referred to a committee the status quo automatically becomes in danger of change, for better or worse...
Marilynn Miller, famed musical comedy player: "When he learned that James M. Barrie had selected me from among ten actresses submitted for the title role of Peter Pan, one Frederick Donaghey, critic of the Chicago Tribune, wrote: 'A guess as to the other nine, in view of Miss Miller's special talents for the part, would list the Misses Sophie Tucker, Marie Dressier, Fannie Brice, Nora Bayes, Gilda Grey, Henrietta Grossman, Nazimova, Mrs. Thomas Whiffen and the two-a-day gymnast called Dainty Marie.' Said Alexander Woollcott, famed critic of The New York Herald: 'Quite...
...James F. Brine announces today the names of H. W. Abbott Jr. '25, P. R. White 21., and J. M. Smith Jr. '24, as the winners of his shirt guessing contest. That few people realize 15,000 square inches of cloth could be contained in a shirt is evidenced by White's winning guess falling below that...
...matter of fact it really does not. And what is more there is probably scarcely an undergraduate who would aspire to membership--except perhaps the Freshmen and transfer students who still suffer illusions. And for their information and comfort it might perhaps be safe to hazard a guess at what will transpire tomorrow...
...hazard the guess, however, that even extra-curriculum activities will disappear within a comparatively short time. Princeton, at least, is becoming more and more of a student's college where not only does curriculum come first, but extra times goes to following out a favorite bit of erudite research-- to reading or to writing. Extra-curriculum activities and over-organization go hand in hand. We would not be surprised to see them fade away before many years have gone by. --The Princetonian...