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THE CLASS AND ITS OPINIONS
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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 ]
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