Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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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

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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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Throughout the year there were repeated rumors that the Nass was about to close its doors for want of patronage. The Class of ' 36 heard these without shame or feeling of guilt, for well they knew that if such a fate befell the Nass it would be no fault of theirs. xA.fter weeks of frantic preparation, during which time the seeds were sown for several nervous breakdowns, the Triangle Club presented on the boards of McCarter its production, What a Relief! This political farce, written by Stan Quinn and George Kinder, and Kirk x ' lexander of the Junior Class, made a most successful tour of the Middle West under the leadership of Walter Smith, leaving behind it chaos of broken hearts, glasses, and conventions. With mid-year examinations safely behind us and between heated discus- sions as to the merits or demerits of swing music, there was some desul- tory worrying over theses. A poll conducted to determine the favorite Republican candidate in the forthcoming fall election revealed that Gover- nor Landon had a great many advocates on the campus. On Alumni Day the coveted Pyne Prize was awarded to Pepper Constable, while Gordon Craig again took first debating honors by winning the Class of ' 76 Debate. The following men were made members of Phi Beta Kappa : Benziger, Bliss, Bourne, Carspecken, Cummings, Dziemian, Goodsell, Hart- man, Jenkins, Kaufman, Levy-Hawes, Merrill, Pumphrey, Ranch, Rhome, Shain, Shelton, Skinner, Sutherland, Symington, Taylor, Templeton, War- ren, and Williams. One of the most outstanding contributions of the class to Princeton and to the country at large was the organization of the famous Veterans of Future Wars. This enterprising group has succeeded in setting up posts at a great number of colleges and gives every promise of a still greater expansion. Spring vacation for most of the class was nothing more than a time when the rest of the undergraduate body went home or to Bermuda. This period is one generally set aside by Seniors for the carrying out of an operation consisting mainly of stringing together several thousand words, punctuat- ing same with enough footnotes to impress the faculty, appending it with an ambitious bibliography, and calling the product a thesis. When this travail was over, the great majority of us s urrendered ourselves to a sort of Philistinism, the outward evidences of which were white overalls and coats called beer suits and a type of nocturnal chanting known here as Senior Singing. The ordeal of comprehensives is too recent and unpleasant to brook comment. Suffice it to say that those of us here have been tried and found worth at least a third grouD. In looking back it is indisputable that Princeton has done a great deal for us. Probably we shall not become fully aware of the true value of the past four years until some time in the future. It is the hope of this class that we, like those before us, can be a credit to this University. C xxiv ]