Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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Q, PRESIDENT JOHN Gnmn HIBBEN

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CONTENTS MKYOUI' Princeton, by Yarnuin Lansing Collins, 392 'glllustrious Bleu Graduates . . EX-Members . . Class Poem, by YV. Stanley Dell, 916 . 'eCampus Notablesf' History of the Class of 1916, by James R. Stockton, Great Americans', Class Elections . Sweet Sixteenersa' 1916 Men in Collcg c Activities 9 36 37 Q67 316 318 319 356 357 368 369 Individual and group pictures throughout the HEIRALD by the 1Vhite Studio. Pictures on pages 329, 338 to 3-Ll, 344 to 346,343 and 349 by the Princeton Pictorial Review. I 7

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YOUR PRINCETON ' BY . VARNUM LANSING COLLINS '92 Commenting upon American undergraduate life, Blr. Henry S. Canby of Yale, in his book College Sons and College Fathers, published last year, makes the remark that we are onthe eve of a 'growing up' of our student body. A great and important change has begun in our universities in the past ten years? Mr. Canby may be optimistic, numerous critics assert that undergraduates never can grow up. Or Mr. Canby may be blind, some of our universities claim that their students are already grown up. As for ourselves, evidently there are undergraduates here at Princeton who have laid themselves open to the charge of being prematurely grave. For when the Nassau Literary 111 czgazine closes one of the most brilliant volumes of its history with a valedictory on Amorphous Princetonv one Mr. Samuel Smiles in columns of the Daily Princetonian chides the editors and their fellow-writers ofthe campus for being too solemn, too serious,iand old before their time. And fundamentally hIr. Smiles was right. As he would say, Ula jeunesse n'a qu'un tempsf, and it will be a needless and surely regrettable change if the maturing of the American undergraduate is to mean a penumbral forgetting of his youth. One can grow mature and yet remain young. I How much of a prophet N112 Canby is, the 'Class of 1916 will proba'bly know by the time it celebrates its 20th or 25th anni- versary. I hope to see that occasion and Welcome back some good friends, but meanwhile I have been asked to say something to the class about the growing upv symptoms at Princeton as they have happened to fall under my casual observation during the last half decade. The most obvious symptom that comes to mind is the pre- I9l