DECEMBER, 1948
Wednesday, December 1st
Last night the University Committee on Student-Faculty Relations met with the Inter-
Club Committee at Elm Club to discuss issues related to student-faculty relations.
Professor Harbison explained that the Committee met first with the club presidents
since they are in the best position to ascertain the opinion of club members in
regard to the problem.
Last spring 475 members of Psychology 304 were surveyed by means of a nine-page
questionnaire concerning their attitudes and practices as related to the Kinsey
Report. 29% feel there will be little or no effect of the Report on college men.
69% feel the report will eliminate guilty feelings, stimulate thought and increase
tolerance of the behavior of others. 7% consider the Report an incitement to im-
morality. 92% feel there should be no censoring of the Report and 94% believe the
Report is the work of conscientious scientists.
President Dodds had previously been quoted as saying "Perhaps the undergraduate
newspaper that likened the reports to the work of small boys writing dirty words on
fences touched a more profound scientific truth than is revealed in the surfeit of
rather trivial graphs with which the reports are loaded."
The Orange Key's annual Christmas Party will be held in the Campus Center on
December 15th. Under the direction of Howard Parks '51, undergraduate talent will
present an essentially musical program to an estimated 200 students. Holland
Donan '51 is chairman of the decoration committee. William Schrauff '51 will be Santa
Claus.
Finch Junior College has launched its own campus newspaper.
Whig-Clio will hold its annual banquet on Wednesday, December 8.
Three Princeton-trained geologists have been cited for outstanding work in locating
and developing of a fabulous new iron ore range in Labrador.
The Tuesday edition of the Princetonian was not delivered due to a break-down
of the Graphics Arts press.
Despite his Puritanical scruples, in 1780 President John Witherspoon organized a
lottery to raise funds for the University.
Continuing his article on the role of the private university, President Dodds
stresses that it is the best protection against mass education, and leads in safe-
guarding academic freedom.
Thursday, December 2nd
Robert C. Winters '35, father of three daughters, has proposed that Princeton admit
women as undergraduates. He thinks having girls regularly on campus rather than just
on weekends will better prepare Princeton men for life after college.
Patrice Munsel, the Metropolitan Opera's youngest lead soprano, will attend the first
performance of the Triangle Club's 1948 production, "All in Favor".
Charles Hoyt '51 has been elected manager and Steven Wood '51 assistant manager of
the 1949 varsity football team. Six-inch P's were awarded to Hoyt and Wood, 1948
assistant managers. A four-inch P went to Pope Lancaster '51, also an assistant
manager of the 1948 team.
Undergraduates seeking opportunities to travel next summer have a chance to learn
about the Experiment in International Living, a non-profit, educational organization,
at a meeting tonight at 7:20 in McCosh. The Experiment has been sending students
abroad for the past seventeen years.
The following members of 1951 have been appointed to posts at WPRU: Vernon Wise as
sales manager, William Bardsley as continuity director, James Brassill as production
director, John Collings as music director, and Michael Strator as classical music
director. Promoted to senior staff announcer were Collings, J. B. M. Frederick amd
C. Wulfing. Promoted to staff announcer were R. C. Wagner, M. H. Strater, R. R.
Drury, A. C. Folli and L. Sykes. Promoted to senior staff engineer were J. S. Mays,
M. Towbes and A. Dyer. L. Sapp was advanced to staff engineer.
A Proctor & Gamble spokesman traced the history of "Duz" at last night's meeting of
the Advertising Forum.
The Princeton Rifle and Pistol Club may soon be recognized as officially repre-
senting the University and members receive P's.
John Hite will lecture on T. S. Eliot tonight at 7:30 as part of his series of public
lectures. "The Waste Land" will be the subject of the preceptorial.
The fencing team begins a 14-meet schedule a week from today.
New York city sportswriters have picked Yale as the top Ivy League basketball team,
with Princeton having the best chance of derailing the Eli.
Friday, December 3rd
A student-staffed cooperative grocery store, under the guidance of the Princeton
Consumer's Cooperative League of Nassau Village, which is made up of members of the
Harrison St. project, will be opened on University Place during the spring term. It
will be across from Henry Hall.
The Princeton University Orchestra will open its season Sunday in a free concert.
Thirty dazzling and unconventional watercolors by William Seitz are on display in
McCormick Hall until December 7th. It is his first one-man show since 1938, and his
first in watercolor
The Undergraduate Council was overwhelmingly in favor adding WPRU as a member,
but was unable to agree on how to create a vacancy, having voted to not expand the
number of members.
When asked to comment on the issue of co-education at Princeton, Dean of Admissions
Radcliffe Heermance said, "I simply can't take that sort of thing seriously." Other
faculty members felt it would improve the social development of Princeton men, but
would probably lower academic performance because of the distractions.
Tuesday, December 7th
The Pennsylvania Railroad has announced that two of its coach streamliners will stop
at Princeton Junction on December 16, 17 and 18. The Trail Blazer will stop at
4:45 pm enroute to Chicago by way of Pittsburgh. The Jeffersonian will stop at
7:07 enroute to St. Louis by way of Pittsburgh, Columbus, Dayton and Indianapolis.
Each train will have special Princeton coaches.
Princeton's 380 pre-med students will get some respite from worrying about being
drafted before medical school under a plan released by the Selective Service Sys-
tem. Under the plan, after completing Freshman year a student may be "provisionally
accepted" by a medical school based on a Pre-Medical Certification test and over-all
scholastic record. The "provisonal acceptance" must be renewed each year but the
exam need be taken only once. The student will be deferred so long as the
acceptance is in force.
The Old Clothes Drive, sponsored by the Overseas Committee of the Student Christian
Association, got off to a good start last night and will end tonight. The clothing
will be divided between the 20,000 students at the University of Warsaw and the
refugees in the Mid-East.
Judge Jerome N. Frank will open a series of five Stafford Little public lectures
on "Judicial Injustice" tonight in the Frick Chemical Lab auditorium. The Stafford
Little Lectureship was established in 1890 by Henry Stafford Little of the Class of
1844. For the first ten years the lectures were given by Grover Cleveland, for one
of the conditions of the gift is that "Ex-President Cleveland is to give the first
course of lectures..."
The actual filming ot the new Princeton documentary has been completed, and editing
is under way. The release is still set for January 15th.
The recent warm weather, warmest since 1902, is due to end in the next few days.
The annual Tiger banquet will be held tonight in the Grill Room of the
Nassau Tavern.
Warning that the current over-crowding in universities was threatening American
educational standards, Yale President Charles Seymour called for independent colleges
and universities to set an example of quality.
The University has been billed $42.50 for "one outside toilet", which served as
the Yale bowl atop the Big Three bonfire. As in the past, the Freshman Class
must pay the bill.
The winter intra-mural season moves into full swing this week.
The Yacht Club closed its season in the Marvin-Gorman-Byrd event on the Potomac
River finishing behind Boston College, MIT and Yale. Tim Barclay '51 was high
scorer with 31 of the Tiger's 59 points. The club had five wins and placed in the
top three positions in ten out of the thirteen regattas sailed.
The varsity basketball season opens tonight against Gettysburg.
Friday, December 10th
The Triangle Club musical "All in Favor" opens tonight at McCarter Theater.
Last night WPRU presented a short period of music during dinner in Upper Cloister.
The music of Andre Kostelanetz, David Rose and Paul Weston brought mixed reactions.
One student thought the music was too exotic, another thought there ought to be
girls to dance with. One diner observed that the "food spoils the music".
The Nassau Jazz Society's second jazz concert, featuring Bobby Hackett and Pee Wee
Russell, will be presented December 12 at Jack Fowler's Restaurant, near Trenton.
A bus will leave Palmer Square at 1:15 to provide transportation.
When the Princeton polo team meets Yale tomorrow night in the Essex Troop Armory in
Newark it will be brother against brother. Playing back on the Yale team is Dan
Mahoney, older brother of Mike Mahoney '51, who will be in the number one spot for
Princeton. Captain Randy Tucker '51 will hold down the number two position, and
and Phil Fanning '51 is expected to see action.
LaSalle College's Joe Verdeur, holder of the world record for the 200 yard breast-
stroke, and Yale's Allen Stack, holder of the world record in the backstroke, will
attempt to set new records as part of the formal opening of the new Dillon pool.
A third Olympian, Ohio State diver Bruce Harlan, will also perform. Carl Jacobs '51
will dive with Harlan. There will be a water ballet by the NAC-ettes of the Newark
Athletic Club and three relay races.
Cigarettes are $1.49 per carton.
"Night Has A Thousand Eyes" is showing at the Playhouse. Edward G. Robinson and
Gail Russell star.
Monday, December 13th
"All In Favor" is hailed as the best Triangle production in years. Princetonian
says 51's Bob Stranahan has the finest "voice to be heard on the Triangle stage in
many years."
Seven members of the Princeton faculty will be honored in the Faculty Room of
Nassau Hall Thursday at 2:00 for their wartime contributions. Five recipients
from the Physics Department are Robert Dicke, Donald Hamilton, Rudolph Landenburg,
Lawrence Rauch and George Reynolds. Pyschologist Norman Frederickson and chemist
Robert Pease are the other two honorees.
Navy, Cornell and probably Lafayette are new opponents on the 1949 football schedule,
replacing Columbia and Virginia.
For the first time in ten to fifteen years, not counting the war years, Princeton
failed to place a man on the list of Rhodes Scholars, but still leads all American
colleges with a total of 72 since the scholarship program began in 1904. Harvard has
had 54 and Yale 50.
The University Band will hold its annual smoker at the Princeton Inn Tuesday at 9.
WPRU announced that Bradish Bailey '51 has been promoted to Business Manager and
Vernon Wise '51 has been named Advertising Manager.
This week most U-Store members will receive their annual refund checks. Along with
the checks will be an appeal from the undergraduate committee of the Third Century
Campaign asking that members contribute "all, or at least half" of the amount of the
checks to the Campaign.
The opening of "All In Favor" evokes memories of past shows and their stars. Jose
Ferrer was described in the program for the 1932 show "It's the Valet" as timid.
Jimmy Stewart was a strolling troubadour in the 1931 production "Spanish Blades".
The program for that show noted that in his three year career he had earned a
"bright reputation" as a crooner. And history Professor E. H. Harbison '28 composed
the music for the 1927 production "Napoleon Passes".
Saturday night the varsity basketball team lost to Villanova by the lop-sided score
of 47-25. Mike Kearns '51 was sidelined by a twisted ankle and Ralph Van Demark
sustained a leg injury. Both will be available for Tuesday's Lafayette game.
Although Mike Mahoney '51 was outscored 4-3 by his Yalie brother, the Princeton polo
team upset favored Yale 12-10. Randy Tucker '51 scored 8 goals and Phil Fanning '51
knocked in one.
Wednesday, December 15th
7,114 contributors have given $383,304.14 toward the 1948-49 goal of $550,000 in
in expendable funds for faculty salaries. 52 U-Store members have sent checks, 41
for the full amount of their rebates. These gifts totaled $425.57. The largest was
$29.21, the smallest $.16 and the average was $8.19.
Walter White, author of the much publicized autobioraphy " A Man Called White", and
executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People, will speak tonight at 8 in McCosh 10. His topic will be "Color Line Across
the Globe".
As part of the Orange Key's annual Christmas Party tonight W. Morgan Marquet '51
and Edward Streator '52 will perform a magic act.
Registrar Howard Stepp has announced that the mid-year registration system
inaugurated last year will be used again this January. All undergraduates will be
required to register during the two-week exam period beginning Monday, January 17th
and ending Friday, January 28th.
The graduation of 208 seniors on February 3rd will drop the enrollment to about 3,200.
This will be the sixth formal mid-year graduation since 1943, and since practically
all undergraduates are now "back on phase" it will be the last.
James Tuck '51 was elected president of the Whig Party last night. Ronald Cracas '51
was named Debate Manager.
Charles Anderson '51 was elected to the board of the Nassau Lit last night.
The second annual display of the Christmas Story in painting, carving and sculpture
will be in the Art Museum until December 31.
The varsity cagers defeated Lafayette last night in Dillon Gym, 48-42. Cliff
Kurrus '51 scored 5 points and Mike Kearns '51 scored 4.
The hockey team plays St. Nicks tonight in Baker Rink.
The College Entrance Examination Board has changed its policy concerning the listing
of first, second and third choices of colleges. A student may now list choices as
equal, or in the old style. Princeton will continue to give priority to applicants
who make it their first choice. Of those who include Princeton as one of two equal
choices, special preference will be given to candidates living in the South, Middle
West and Far West.
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