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Monuments & Dancing. Today, Freiburg's cops can look forward to quiet evenings. Judge Härringer's boys' town now has 300 members, most of them on probation for petty theft. They proudly call themselves "the Härringer Boys," have a spacious new civic center donated...
Princeton University has placed the chairman and a writer from the retired board of the Nassan Literary Magazine on indefinite probation for a story which was "in bad taste."
Dean of the College Francis R. B. Godolphin said that the two seniors, exchairman Robert C. Agee and Roger W. Derby, writer of the controversial article entitled "The First Taste," were placed on probation because of dialogue in the story. It appeared in the December issue of the magazine.
A new board and new officers have taken over the Lit since the controversial article appeared. Therefore, the two students' probation will not directly affect the magazine.
Inasmuch as the Dean's action is punishment of a well-intentioned mistake in judgment, rather than of a malicious attempt to misuse the pages of the Lit, the probation must be condemned," the paper concluded.