Word: princeton
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...first flush of success after the publication of This Side of Paradise, 23-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald returned to Princeton one day in 1920 for a banquet of former editors of the Nassau Lit. There, as usual, he began to drink, crowned Dean Christian Gauss with a laurel wreath and got so drunk that Cottage Club suspended him. "For seven years," wrote Fitzgerald later, "I didn't go to Princeton. Then a magazine asked me to write an article about it and when I started to write it, I found I really loved the place...
When Novelist Fitzgerald died in 1941, by then one of Princeton's famous alumni (though he left for World War I before graduating), his family did not quite know what to do with all his manuscripts and papers. Eventually, the family decided to send them to the Princeton Library, where they could be safely stored. Last week, going a step further, his daughter Frances Scott (now Mrs. Samuel J. Lanahan) announced that she had turned the papers over for keeps. With that gift, every major piece of Fitzgeraldiana from Paradise to The Last Tycoon will become permanently available...
When Charley Caldwell went back to Princeton five years ago to become head football coach, Tiger alumni did a good job of restraining their enthusiasm. Hungry for a winning football team after years of indifferent records, many of them had been hoping for a big-name coach with a national reputation. Charley Caldwell, an old Tiger letterman (1922-24), had had his chief coaching success at Williams in the relative obscurity of the Little Three (Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan...
...first Big Three title (over Harvard and Yale), then did it again in 1948 and 1949. This season, Caldwell has had old Tigers purring like cats knee-deep in cream. Scorning the T-formation and using a juggernaut single wing with buck laterals (TIME, Nov. 6), Caldwell guided Princeton to its fourth straight Big Three title, first Ivy League title in 15 years, first undefeated season in the same length of time, and unchallenged ranking among the top teams...
Historians went on doing solid work, but the year's big launching was Princeton's first volume of its projected 52-volume The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Allan Nevins completed his two-volume Emergence of Lincoln, which examined as if for the first time the crucial years 1857-61. Stewart Holbrook had the fine idea of tracking down the pioneers whose home towns were in New England, and produced a fascinating piece of Americana in The Yankee Exodus, while John Bakeless reproduced the look of the country as its first explorers saw it in The Eyes of Discovery...