Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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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 ]

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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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7 ' V -« I - others, better acquainted with themselves, engaged in no such delusions and simply wondered whether the job could be done in a week. SENIOR YEAR 1935-1936 Last fall five hundred and seventeen grave old Seniors returned to the scene of former battles to conduct their last conquest and to hope that some- how after it was all over that there would be a job waiting for them. We watched with considerable satisfaction the football team under the leader- ship of Pepper Constable complete an undefeated season, the second in our four years at Princeton. We cheered enthusiastically at the victory bonfire and left it a little sad at the thought that it would be our last. In October the Undergraduate Council made known a change in its method of selecting members which operated so as to include in that body representatives from various campus organizations. That same month we learned with great regret that Professor J. Duncan Spaeth was going to relinquish his position here to accept the presidency of the University of Kansas City. There was also announced the fact that no longer would there be any set limit on the number of cuts allowed a student, so long as the collective interest of the University was not endangered. Senior Members of the Princeton Engineering Society [ xxiii 3