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

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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

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