Princeton University - Bric A Brac Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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You are cordially invited to visit beautiful PRINCETON INN A hostelry of great charm amonz tin Oaks and Hemlocks You can rest here — an hour, a day. a week or a year. The Inn is away from the crowds — out in the country. Golf, if you wish — or from the sunny veranda you may watch the others. Peace and quiet you will find — also the best ot food and drink — and probably many congenial friends. Oh the opposite page is a picture of the old-fashioned garden at The Inn where one is always slieltered from the rear of city life. Princeton Inn is under the management of J. Howard Slocum. Mr. Slocum will take a personal interest in your visit. American Plan 100 Rooms and Baths Ample free parking space Garage adjacent Drive in from Alexander Street near Station Plaza PRINCETON . NEW JERSEY 272

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in ? x Sun suitors team was capturing the Bermuda Cup for the second year in succession. Beer suits made their annual appearance and soon the spectacle of an abashed 3S tiger peering sheep- ishlv from behind the eight ball was to be seen everywhere. Various interpretations of the design, both favorable and unfavorable, were freelv ren- dered, giving rise to a hot controversy over its appropriateness. Despite much argumentation and several impassioned letters to the Prince, how- ever, the questionable tigers behind the eight ball continued to roam about the campus. The perennial agitation for Sunday movies again came to the forefront with accompanying editorials, surveys of students and townspeople, and theatre managers ' statements favoring Sabbath entertain- ment, onlv to rind the local Blue Laws still invulner- able to every attack. April 27th brought the fifth annual Peace Mobili- zation Meeting sponsored by the Princeton Anti- War Societv. A large crowd was present to hear Norman Thomas, the principal speaker of the even- ing, attack in most belligerent terms the decadent capitalistic and nationalistic system which breeds war and fascism. The advent of house party weekend made the freshmen feel somewhat neglected. Although classes in the past had meekly accepted their fate and looked forward hopefully to following years, 1941 had ideas of its own and soon was advocating for the weekend of May 13th a Freshman Prom with an informal and homey atmosphere. However, the powers of Nassau Hall, unimpressed by promises to contribute the profits to the President ' s Program, declared the proposal inexpedient for the present and the freshmen once more were left out in the cold. On April 29th the Daily Princetanian, in con- junction with radio station WTNJ of Trenton, in- augurated a weekly Princeton program of inter- views, talks and campus news to be broadcast each Fridav evening. During the month the baseball team, seemingly unable to hit its stride, won only three of nine games. The golfers got away to a good start with victories over Navy, HolvCross, and Lafayette, while the tennis team swept through five matches without the loss of a single point. The varsity crew made an excellent showing in losing to a powerful Navy eight. Odds and Ends: Lafayette and St. Johns baseball games called off because of snow . . . Entire campus envying the Glee Club, at least while the Vassar girls were in town for the joint concert . . . Tiger bridge wizards waiting anxiously at the Inn for scores of the World Bridge Olympics in which they had competed . . . Committee in charge of senior singing announcing its intention of cleaning up the more objectionable ditties . . . Telegram to Chan- cellor Hitler requesting non-Aryan volumes con- demned in Austria for Princeton ' s new Library . . . R. O. T. C. marching about to the strains of Heigh- ho, heigh-ho, it ' s off to work we go . . . Prince- ton 38, Yale 37 still remaining on the scoreboard at Brokaw Pool and looking bigger and better every dav. May, 1938 Socialist Norman Thomas ' 05 put in an appearance on the Princeton campus earlv in May at a peace gathering on Cannon Green, occasioned by the fifth annual Mobilization Meeting sponsored by the Anti- War Society. A large crowd left their books for an hour to hear him attack what he termed the deca- dent capitalistic and nationalistic system which breeds war and fascism. To lend an amusing touch to an atmosphere other- wise permeated with worries and frantic efforts to catch up with the professors before final exams ar- rived, two undergrads set the entire student bodv to chuckling contentedly for several weeks with the publication of The Laugh ' s on You. This was a satirical volume describing events in the life of J. Hamilton Smeltzer, ' 40, incident to his search for a college education. Houseparties furnished a chance for relaxation from the regular routine. In an attempt at preserva- tion of their white ties while dancing, a procession of underclassmen marched down Prospect Street - — - I pledge my 274