Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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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 ]

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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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-13 3B- i 1 4 ' 1 H Wt.ii LA feliiiaBiiliii;- 1 EXECUTIVE Council of Whig-Clio elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Gregory was awarded the Blackwell Hockey Cup, and Gordon Craig won the annual Maclean Oratory Contest. In February we saw the unveiling of that artistic eulogy to Princeton athletic prowess, when the gymnasium murals were made available for public inspection. There was also that most welcome proclamation that the Board of Trustees had reconsidered its long-time policy of compulsory chapel for all undergrad uates and that henceforth no such demand would be placed on Juniors and Seniors. At the annual class elections Carlile was named president ; Keppel, vice- president; and Wister, secretary and treasurer. The campus literary and journalistic organizations elected as heads for Senior year the following men : Princetonian, Carlile ; Press Club, Peplow ; Nassau Lit, Goheen ; and Tiger, Parrott. The following sports captains were also elected: football, Constable; basketball, MacMillan; baseball, French; hockty, Willis; swimming, Willey ; tennis, Minnich ; golf, Malloy ; crew, Keppel ; wrestling, Treide ; lacrosse, Britten ; soccer, Watson ; track, Hogan ; and rugby, Pasley. Junior year closed with a blast from the faculty in the form of compre- hensive examinations. On leaving for home some of the more ambitious of us planned to labor sedulously at the already threatening thesis problem ; C xxii ]