Word: princetonians
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Thousands and thousands of Princetonians have gone out into the world quite freed from the inferiority complex because of the peculiar efficacy which Tiger teams had against the Crimson. And this was salutary because, as a matter of fact, the Princetonian who feels inferior is suffering only by the kindest stretch of the imagination from a complex. But even an actual inferiority can be swept away in the glamor of a football triumph. It should be unnecessary to point out that the benefits were conferred upon many who never made Coach Roper's squad. When Wittmer gets loose the most...
...next five will all be bigger and tougher. Bill Roper and the team can make little ones out of them, however, if the undergraduates are willing to do their part. They will have a chance to show such willingness at the mass meeting tomorrow night. --The Princetonian...
Probably there will be no exodus from Princeton as a result of an interview with Floyd L. Carlisle, a New York banker, in The Daily Princetonian. He tells his college audience that, except possibly for courses in debating, four years on the campus is a four-year handicap for men intending to enter business; that college training is useful only for law, engineering and science. The start which one entering business at 18 has over one entering at 22, even with his college degree, is usually too great to be overtaken, in his opinion...
...recognized. It is likely that considerable desultory week-ending and cruising has has been thereby eliminated, and a potential cause of deaths has been greatly curbed. The number of colleges which have adopted such a ruling since Princeton's action gives to it a popular acceptance. --The Daily Princetonian...
...Princeton men do not know John Gale Hun, who conducts in Princeton a school for young children, another school for "cramming" college entrance candi dates, and a third for "cramming" under graduates. So aware of Hun aid was one Princetonian, according to legend, that, upon graduating, he asked Crammer Hun to sign his name under those of the Uni versity Trustees and President. Legend adds Crammer Hun signed. This week another Hun enterprise was inaugurated: a country day school for students from Trenton, N. J., and vicinity. . . . Time-honored though the custom be, this year, for the first time, Princeton...