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

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Guest lecturer graduates returning for a fleeting happy moment at their alma mater. By Alumni Day the town was virtually given o ver to the reumoners; and every garage, firehouse, and freshman boarding house was a class headquarters. The streets and by-roads were crossed with large orange and black numeral ban- ners and filled with the van-colored costumes of the different classes. The war-nourished Class of 1918 jaunted noisily about in a motor-driven locomotive and French forty-and-eight to lend added color to the spectacle. It was also 1918 which triumphed in the Down-Hill Regatta, annual feature of the morning of Alumni Day. The time-honored P-raJe was led by the silver anniversary celebrants of 1913 and included William H. Vail ' 65, the second oldest living alumnus. Uni- versity Field was no scene of gaiety, however, as the Xassau nine succumbed to the Elis, 5 to 2. The traditional rite of choosing the captain for the fol- lowing season was, nevertheless, engaged in, with Brud Harper receiving the honor. Later, the spot- light w as on Palmer Stadium. The fifth invitation Track Meet was featured by the record-breaking triumph of Texan Wayne Rideout in the 3 l -mile event and the victories of Archie Williams in the 440, Charlie Beetham in the 880, Glenn Cunningham in the all-important mile, Ray Sears in the 2-mile, and Earle Meadows in the pole vault. The foreign entrant, Belgian Josef Mostert, and the Princeton- ians, Captain Pete Bradley, Captain-elect Phil Goold, and Freshman Captain Paul Douglas per- formed gallantly but were unable to equal the rec- ords of their victorious competitors. After the Academic Procession had filed into the Chapel Sunday morning, President Dodds delivered the Baccalaureate Address, condemning the evils of leisure and praising the rewards of hard work. Other events of the day were the laving of the class memo- rial wreaths in Nassau Hall and the reception at Prospect for the members of the Class of 1SS8 and the Old Guard. Class Dav was officially inaugurated when Presi- dent Dodds presented the keys of the college to the President of the Class of 1938, Dan Covle. The class poem was read by J. W. Carlile; the class oration was delivered bv T. R. McMillen and the Ivy Oration by R. S. Mueller. At the cannon exercises the class history was read bv LeG. A. Gould, Jr., while D. D. Covle delivered the Class President ' s address, in which he criticized the penetration of the eating club into other than social fields and the weight given to comprehensive examinations and advo- cated the extension of the Honor System to the writ- ing of laboratory reports and departmental papers. In a Gvmnasium depicting a South Sea island the members of the class and their guests enjoyed their Senior Promenade to the music of Red Norvo and the vocalism of Mildred Bailey, the Mr. and Mrs. of Swing. Among the well-known recipients of honorary degrees on Commencement Day were Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Governor A. Harry Moore. Among those receiving hard-earned bachelors ' de- grees were 476 members of the Class of 1938 who were now to make their way in the wide, wide world. Fd sh 280

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September, 1938 On September 28th the fall term opened conven- tionallv and uneventfully for the greatest number of students ever to enroll in Princeton. In place of the usual throng of salesmen, however, were to be seen some seventy official-looking youths sporting orange and black arm-bands. The function of this Freshman Orientation Committee, was, to accustom Freshmen to the University in general, and to warn them against salesmen in particular. In the latter capac- itv, their success was spectacular. It was by no means an uncommon sight to see representatives of laundries, shoe shops, and pressing agencies waging a losing battle against hardened Freshmen through the mail slot, unable to get even the proverbial one foot in the door. In the world of sport, prospects were both uncer- tain and encouraging. The football team had been shaping up nicely since the squad first reported for practice on September 9th. A wealth of good ma- terial appeared quite capable of tilling the gaps left by graduation, yet these favorable factors were par- tiallv offset by the terrifically high calibre of the teams on the schedule. For the soccer team the future seemed very bright, as there were nine lettermen returning from last vear ' s championship outfit. At the same time every- one connected with Princeton was disappointed to hear that Mr. Bryan, coach of 150-pound crew and head of several religious societies, had resigned from college. On the last day of September Princeton ' s prestige suffered from a rather severe setback and at the same time was considerably enhanced. It seems official notice was taken of Miss Halsey ' s vituperative work, ' AYith Malice Toward Some, in which she states that a Princetonian is born to be pushed over- ts instruction Forty -second Street board, when a member of the faculty on the same dav found the following reference in one of Kenneth Roberts ' novels: . . . He had even more to sav about the voung men of Harvard College, a lot of loose-living, rum-guzzling rakes with an offensive and unfounded air of superiontv, whereas the young gentlemen of the college which he had attended, at Princeton in New Jersev, were vastlv superior per- sons, both aristocratic and democratic at the same time, as well as brave and learned, with onlv the natural instincts of gentlemen for wine and the companionship of the fair sex. October, 1938 The football question stood uppermost in the minds of all as Indian summer greeted the purple- clad plavers from Williams on the first day of the month. The surprising weakness of this team left the Orange and Black totally untested and the stu- dent bodv unprepared for the crushing administered by the Dartmouth steam roller the following week. At the annual reception conducted for the pleasure of the freshmen and enterprising upperclassmen, the most enlightening remark was made by President Dodds, who commented that this really was a good freshman class. Reason for the comment was that one of the uninitiated had the tactful temerity to ask Mrs. Dodds to dance. We hail the inauguration of a new custom. The second tragedv of the vear hit the football team when LeRov Mills, punting coach and author- ltv on kicking, suffered a heart attack and succumbed 282