Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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1 3E- ment XVIII. We learned with great pride that Dr. Tyler Dennett had been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of John Hay, and some time later again had occasion to congratulate this gentleman on his selection as president of Williams. Erie Savage was elected to be captain of the hockey team in his Junior year, and Walter Smith to head the Theatre Intime. Hugh MacMillan was outstanding on the basketball team, as were Fackert and Willock on the track team. The tennis team, with Whitman, Tilden, Bacon, and Minnich had an undefeated season. Gordon Keppel was elected captain of the crew for his Junior year. In April we were called upon to choose the departments in whi?h we desired to major. Politics, Economics, and History drew the most students. Senior Princetonian Board Members Shortly after, we were allowed to lend ourselves to that annual fun marathon called Houseparties. Following upon this festive siesta we applied ourselves with varying degrees of diligence to overcoming that omnipresent monster, examinations. These over, some of us set about arranging to repair to more inviting precincts ; some made arrangements for the prolongation of their schooling through the summer, depending upon the number of facts each was able to repeat under examinations. i: XX :

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Senior Members of the Tiger entertainment and trying to collect bets from certain ill-advised friends who had underrated the foatball team. After the ordeal by question perpetrated in January, those af us who escaped the misfortune of incurring the wrath of the faculty, set about methodically to worry and connive over the club elections. Chaos held sway and inhibited rational mental exertions. We answer ed knocks at our doors with remarkable alacrity. We gave away cigarettes with an abandon that in retrospect is surprising. We made attempts at conversation which in many cases amounted to little more than a jumble of pidgin English. After this purgatorial interlude four hundred and fifty-two members of the class paraded down Prospect Street on Bicker Monday, signed their names in large books, bought striped ties and became parts of the system and the problem. Dean Root announced, in the early spring, the adoption of the No- Course Plan for Seniors, which aroused in certain members of the class a feeling of hope ; in others, envy. We were also informed that hereafter the num ber of cuts taken by any student would be kept secret until he had exceeded his quota. This announcement elicited no great enthusiasm. There was, however, a demonstration of great pleasure when our Constitution was amended so as to nullify the erstwhile restraining effects of Amend- H xix 3

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JUNIOR YEAR 1934-1935 In September 1934 we came back to get our first -aste of the mysterious preceptorials. We were initiated almost immediately into the Junior Paper system and learned to speak of majors with a certain respectful awe and to deprecate the relative import of so-called electives. We gave ourselves with great seriousness to the business of deifying the football team and by way of worship betook ourselves weekly to sundry stadiums there to squat on cold concrete and shout Hoorah ! This ritual was performed faith- fully and with considerable satisfaction, until that dark day when some team from a college in Connecticut rudely deflated our overexpanded egos. It was during the football season that, mirable dictu, something went wrong with the newly devised bicker rules. Various irregularities were discovered. No one has ever been quite able to understand how it was that the president of a certain club turned up in the Cannon section. We took part in the annual production of the Triangle Club. Excellent songs by Brooks Bowman and splendid acting by Wood and Smith were instrumental in making Stags at Bay the finest show in a great many years. After mid-year examinations it was announced that Craig, Koehler, Mc- Connell, Peterson, Petito, J. C. Smith, John Thompson, and Wylie had been Senior Prom Committee C xxi ]