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...President Hibben's interest in the university's athletic fortunes pleased robust Princeton alumni, the subsequent events of the evening must have been even more heartening for, excited by a football rally, the undergraduates put on a display of Real Old Princeton Enthusiasm. About 1,500 of the student body started bonfires after the meeting, tossed some of their room fixtures on the blaze, then scoured the town for combustibles. The general disorder culminated in minor riot, with freshmen battling sophomores for the privilege of entering Renwick's, an icecream parlor forbidden them. Traffic was blocked...
...cask of obscurity within which they have been maturing a potent anti-Prohibition organization, the Crusaders, which they laid down in Cleveland at the first of the year (TIME, Jan. 27). Mostly able sons of able fathers, mostly college graduates, their average age about 35 years, they made robust speeches against Prohibition's evils, planned an ambitious political campaign, a drive for membership...
Conventions of World War veterans in Europe have large contingents of the gassed and wounded. Present but not marching last week in Boston were many battle-maimed U. S. heroes. But the great majority of American Legionaries never saw front-line action, are now unscarred, robust men in the prime of life. Therefore when 70,000 of them get together to play soldier again it is like a gigantic college reunion, gay, colorful, sometimes ribald. Last week hoodlums took advantage of the occasion to overturn motors, build bonfires, fisticuff in the streets. Lo-cal hospitals treated 358 persons for liquor...
...about to convene (next week, in Washington) to draft a report which may well alter the position of President Hoover on the issue. After 1 6 months of study it had not yet deter mined how deeply into Prohibition to delve. Commissioner Mackintosh's strong language, his robust character, indicated that there would be serious internal dis turbances if the Commission tries to side step the "guts...
...strength of Samson be literal fact if the strength of Hercules is myth merely? Two years later Junior Fosdick decided to remove God from his universe. Mean while, he had suffered such agonies of doubt as come only to those who are at once religious by nature and intellectually robust. But serenity returned when God came back stripped of obscurantist makeup. Harry Fosdick was graduated head of his class. Third Crisis was essentially physical, for never again was the Fosdick faith con founded. Dr. Fosdick's is not a brilliant mind : Dr. Fosdick achieves brilliance. No preacher can equal...