February, 1951
Thursday, February 1
Battle for Twin Tunnels.
(There is no copy available of the "Prince" for this date.)
Friday, February 2
Princeton University is not planning to start an accelerated progam this summer, it was
disclosed by President Dodds yesterday. Dodds' statement was part of a joint announcement
by the presidents of Brown, Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Tufts, Yale and Princeton which
stated that the seven schools were not planning under present conditions to adopt a
three-term accelerated program.
The Daily Princetonian will celebrate its 75th anniversary at the paper's annual
dinner at the University Club in New York. Allen Dulles '14, deputy director of CIA and
Edward Barrett, assistant secretary of state, will be the guest speakers. Retiring
chairman Lewis Mudge will introduce the departing and incoming boards.
Work is underway on a new patients' wing and service building at the Princeton Hospital.
Tryouts for the Tigertones will be held next Monday and Tuesday. Tonight the harmony
group will appear at a dance at the First Trinity Episcopal Church.
Students from Texas will meet tonight in the Senior Room of the Nass to found a Texas
Club of Princeton.
Today is the last day for Sophomores to register as singles for the Bicker. Iron-
bounds need not register until Monday.
Perkins Wilson and Thomas Marshall have been named co-chairmen of a joint-service dance
to be sponsored by the Departments of Naval and Military Sciences for the NROTC and
ROTC units. The final decision to hold the dance will be based on a survey of the
students in each department. If the majority of the students are in favor, the dance
will be held the weekend of either March 17 or April 14.
Professor David Bohm's motion to dismiss the contempt of Congress charges has been over-
turned by the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
The Undergraduate Council resolved last night that heads of organizations with seats on
the council may appoint permanent representatives to sit, rather than sit themselves.
The Council learned that the new Tiger skin that was expected to last ten years will
probably not make it through next football season. The Council paid part of the $450
cost of the new suit.
Branded, with Alan Ladd and Mona Freeman, is at the Playhouse. The Mudlark,
with Alec Guiness, Irene Dunne, Jimmy Durante and Piper Lawrie, is at the Garden.
Monday, February 5
X Corps begins Operation Roundup on eastern front.
Princeton's 18 million volt cyclotron, damaged by fire last February 22, has finally been
repaired at a cost of $250,000,
Yale upset the Tiger basketball team Saturday night, 55-48, at New Haven.
The Constitution of the Class of 1951 will submitted for ratification at the Senior Banquet
Thursday night, Jack Davison, class president, announced yesterday.
Emphasizing that the Sophomores will use no coercion in the Bicker, class president
William Ruddick declared last night "we call for nothing less than the bidding of
100 per cent of the Class of 1953."
Dr. Wallace Dyer, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, will
be the speaker at the next meeting of the Pre-Med Society, according to president Ellery
Gay.
Dean Godolphin reported that 33 students failed last term, the same as last year. He
also reported that 47 students withdrew, compared to 42 last year. Thirty five of those
who withdrew did so to enlist in the armed forces, mostly after the first week in December
when the Chinese Communists became involved in the war.
The Bicker calling period begins this evening. All Sophomores are urged to stay in their
rooms during this period. Ironbounds must be registered no later than today, and must
be no larger than six men.
Harriet Craig, with Joan Crawford and Wendell Cory, is at the Playhouse. A Night At
at the Opera, with the Marx Brothers, is at the Garden.
In weekend sports Brown defeated the hockey team, 6-1; the swim team lost to Navy, 40-35,
as captain Bob Brawner captured the 200 yard breast stroke in world record shattering time;
the squash team lost to Navy, 6-3; the wrestlers beat Penn, 21-8; and Army took the
fencing meet, 20-7.
The following men have still not met the Trustees' x-ray requirement and are, therefore,
still under suspension and ineligible to attend class or take part in any University
activity: William Barclay, William Bauhan, David Berry, Charles Bortz, Samuel Cohn,
Kenneth Felch, Andrew Happer, Roy Herbert, Phillips Hungerford, Jay Master, Grady Miller,
William Morris, George O'Brien, Gregory Sheridan, Donald Sutherland, Duane Wilder and
Gordon Williams.
Tuesday, February 6
The new trial for the "Trenton Six" began yesterday in Mercer Superior Court.
The Work-Study program has been opened to Freshmen and Sophomores, as well as Juniors, and
will be the University's main focus unless the war situation requires an accelerated
program.
Following the first night of Bicker calling, the Undergraduate Interclub Committee
chairman announced a new checkoff system to make certain that every eligible is seen
by at least one Bicker committee. Each Bicker committee will check the names of the men
it has seen on a master list in Nassau Hall. At the end of the first week of Bicker
each club Bicker committee will be given a list of those men not yet seen. The
committees will then endeavor to see the men on that list.
The Marine Platoon Leaders Class has been extended to allow Juniors to enroll as well as
Sophomores and Freshmen. No courses will required during the school year but enrollees will
participate in two 6-week summer courses. Upon completion of the courses and graduation
they will receive commissions in the Marine Corps.
The Nassau Sovereign became the first "war casualty" among Campus publications as it
suspended operations for the duration of the present world emergency.
President Dodds has been elected a member of the board of governors of the American Red Cross.
He also serves as a member of the President's Advisory Commission on Universal Military
Training.
Class president Jack Davison has appointed Benjamin Van Tuyl Archivist for the Class of 1951,
while William Grady has been put in charge of arranging photographs of the commencement pro-
gram and related activities.
Richard Murphy was recently asked by the feature editor of The Silhouette, student news-
paper of Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Geogia, to act as judge in a beauty contest.
He was sent photographs of 20 Agnes Scott students and asked to pick the 7 best looking.
After consultation with his roommates he sent his selections back to Decatur.
Barton Leach, professor of law at Harvard Law School, will speak to the Pre-Law Society at
7:30 tonight in the Senior Room of the Nass.
Dr. John Casteel, of the Union Theological Seminary, will present three lectures on the theme
"Christians at Work and at War." The lectures will be in McCosh 10 at 8 pm on Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday, February11-13
Cornell edged the Tiger polo team, 16-15. Mike Mahoney scored 6 goals and Randy Tucker
scored one.
James Gorter proved that football need not affect grades. Last term, while playing fullback
on the football team, he achieved four grades of one plus, for an average of .7.
The Baker Independents lost to their Yale counterparts, the Yale Yaks, 11-7.
The annual IAA foul-shooting contest will be held in Dillon Gym on February 15.
The deadline for applying for the Princeton Fellowship for graduate study at Harvard is Feb-
ruary 12. The Fellowship was established at Harvard in 1910 by Cleveland Dodge.
The Outing Club is meeting tonight at 9 in McCosh to develop its plans for the spring term.
Four ski trips, two to New England and two to the Poconos, plus a spelunking trip with the
Vassar and Yale Outing Clubs, are on the agenda.
Wednesday, February 7
The railroad switchmen strike is over and the trains will be running on schedule tomorrow,
but mail service is poor, with only first class mail moving normally.
Dean Godolpin reports that 29 men are still under suspension for failing to get a chest x-ray.
An Amherst survey of student and faculty feelings about the war and the draft reveals that
Harvard has lost 15 men to the service, with more expected to follow next summer, Hamilton
has lost six, Williams 20 and Princeton 35.
Assisted by Waring Jones, Richard Hilliard '52 is producing his third movie, entitled
The Parker Game.
Ernie Beck, Penn's sensational sophomore pivot man, is scoring at the second highest rate in
the 47 year history of the EIBL, scoring 117 points in six league games. The record is held
by Yale's Tony Lavelli, with 256 points in 1949.
Call Me Mister, with Betty Grable and Dan Daily, is at the Playhouse. A Run For Your
Money, with Alec Guiness and Moira Lister, is at the Garden.
The Reverend Robert James, regional secretary of the Student Christian movement, will speak to
the annual Princeton Student Christian Association banquet on Friday evening, February 16.
Thursday, February 8
Opposition to the Defense Department's proposal to draft 18-year-olds is mounting. The House
Armed Services Committee is meeting to find a compromise, probably setting the minimum draft
age at 18 1/2.
The Senior Class Banquet will begin at 6:30 tonight in Dillon Gym, with Judge Harold Medina '09
as featured speaker.
WPRU has amended its constitution to adjust its future staffing to the possibility that the war
will reduce the student enrollment.
President Robert Bloom announced that an election of members to the student cabinet of the
Princeton Hillel Foundation will be held tonight at 7:30 in the Cabinet Room of Murray-Dodge.
The principal project for this year will be arranging the Harvard-Princeton-Yale colloquium.
As part of the Junior Prom entertainment there will be a showing of the film Highlights of
the 1950 Football Season.
Only 251 Sophomores have registered for the Bicker as ironbounds, while 441 are registered as
singles, and 17 did not register at all. Last year there were only 172 singles.
The Marine Platoon Leaders' Program and the Navy Reserve Officers Candidates Program do not
require any training courses to be taken during the school year. Rather, they pack all training
into two six-week summer sessions.
Anthony Devereaux is in charge of the IAA interclub bridge tournament to be held Monday night
February 12 at 7:15 at a site to be announced.
Monday night's Pennsylvania Railroad disaster at Woodbridge, N. J., took the lives of three
Princeton graduates, including John James '33, one of the greatest backs in Princeton football
history.
Today's "Prince" publishes in its entirety the Constitution of the Class of 1951.
Princeton defeated Penn, 69-56, last night in Dillon Gym.
The squash team defeated Penn, 9-0.
Ellery Gay has been elected senior house committee member at Cloister Inn.
The Tigertones face a difficult decision; whether to go to Bermuda or Florida for a series of
April appearances. According to president Karl Rauschert, three Hilton hotels have invited
invited them to Bermuda, while the Boca Raton Club has invited them to Florida.
Friday, February 9
The twelve remaining students who have not had chest x-rays have been ordered by Dean
Godolphin to leave the Campus until such time as they can produce a current chest x-ray.
Congress is considering a bill to raise the excise tax on alcohol beverages by $3.00 per
gallon. In New Jersey taxes make up about two thirds of the cost of a bottle of liquor.
The annual Bridge Club tournament for the University championship, and for the qualifying
round of the national championship, gets underway tomorrow afternoon at 1:15 in the Cabinet
Room of Murray-Dodge.
Today is the last day to change courses for the spring term.
Undergraduate Council chairman Richard Murphy announced that a sub-committee has been
formed to plan a series of forums to discuss world conditions.
The latest issue of MSS will be delivered to subscribers over the weekend. Included
are short stories by Walter Clemons, "Business", Richard Pierson, "The Boy", and poems by
Pierson, "An Expedition to the Trenton State Hospital", and Robert Belknap, "Two Lyrics
From an Interplanetary Pastoral."
The local Woolsworth's has been charged with racial discrimination in hiring.
Walk Softly, Stranger, with Joseph Cotten and Valli, is at the Garden.
Sunday, February 11
Chinese Communists launch 4th phase 3 offensive in Central Korea.
Monday, February 12
All twelve men ordered from the Campus because they had not had chest x-rays have now com-
plied with the rule and been reinstated, according to Mike Kopliner.
The nominating committee for class officers for the Class of 1951 will accept nominations
until February 22. The committee consists of Jack Davison, Martin Agnew, Daniel Anderson and
Martyn Owen.
The Senate Preparedness sub-committee has recommended that no 18-year-olds be drated until
the pool of nineteens and up has been exhausted.
Princeton dampened the spirit of the Dartmouth Winter Carnival by beating the Indians by a
66-58 margin.
The Campus Center Committee of the Orange Key will hold a fund drive for the American Red
Cross during the first week of March, according to chairman Donald Hahn.
An escaped convict led State Police on wild, six-mile race by car and on foot. He was taken
into custody near Penn's Neck.
Professor Daniel Sayre, chairman of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, has been
named director of the Forrestal Research Center.
Intime president Robert Yaeger announced that the deadline for submissions for the annual
one act play competition is March 1.
Father of the Bride, with Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett and Billie Burk, is at the
Garden.
The hockey team fell to Yale, 8-5, Saturday in Baker Rink. Princeton was scoreless for the
first 39 minutes as Yale built a 5 goal lead.
The wrestlers lost to Navy , 20-11, at Annapolis on Saturday.
The fencers defeated Penn, 15-12, at Philadelphia on Saturday.
A superior West Point team defeated the squash team, 6-3.
The box lacrosse team lost to Army, 16-11.
Carlton Jacobs soared 13 feet 7 inches, his best ever, to take second place in the 73rd
annual New York Athletic Club Games in Madison Square Garden Saturday night.
Tuesday, February 13
Battle of Chipyong-Ni. Communist offensive contained.
The Newark Star-Ledger reported Sunday that "most of Princeton's undefeated football
team reportedly was taken as a body into the Marines Corps Platoon Leaders ROTC program at
the University late last week. The story was categorically denied by Lieutenant Arthur
Poillon, of the Naval Science Department, and by Dan Coyle, director of athletic publicity,
and Kenneth Fairman, Director of Athletics.
According to Dean Brown, decreases in enrollment due to effects of the draft will require
decreases in the Faculty.
Amherst has announced that it will offer a summer term so that students may accelerate their
course of study.
Assistant Dean William Lippincott announced that the car regulations will be modified for
the Junior Prom Weekend, March 2-4. No cars will be allowed in Princeton prior to noon Fri-
day or after 6 pm Sunday. No cars will be permitted to be taken out of the Borough between
the hours of 7 pm Friday and 8 am Saturday or 7 pm Saturday and 8 am Sunday except to make
train connections at Princeton Junction or Trenton. All undergraduates must return their
guests to their rooms before 4 am Saturday and before 2 am Sunday. No undergraduate may
drive a car between 4 am and 8 am Saturday or 2 am and 8 am Sunday.
Current civil defense plans call for the University to provide shelter for 500 displaced
persons in the event of an emergency, and many more if the emergency occurs during the
summer.
Operations for moving a house to provide a site for the new Woodrow Wilson School at the
corner of Washington Road and Prospect Street were completed last week in the first step
toward construction of the $1,500,000 building.
Cottage Club is leading the basketball "A" league, and Ivy leads the "B" league.
A blown fuse put WPRU off the air last night, and left Hamilton and nine entries of Holder
in darkness. Power was restored by 11 pm.
Wednesday, February 14
The Wooden Wheel, favorite Tiger night spot on the Somervill Road, will be closed the
night of the Junior Prom, and four other nights as well, for serving liquor to minors.
Three men thrilled a crowd of 150 students, faculty and children as they scaled the heights
of the University Chapel to repair the damage done by the Dartmouth weekend hurricane.
Tickets for the Junior Prom go on sale today at a price of $8.40 per couple. For this
price each prom-goer will receive an engraved invitation to present to his date.
Elm Club led the way into the quarterfinals of the IAA duplicate bridge tournament.
The Navy Department has announced a new special program allowing draft-eligible Seniors
and graduate students to receive a commission in the Navy Reserve, or in special Navy
branches. A monthly quota of 150 appointments has been set. Application must be made with-
in 120 days of graduation.
Thursday, February 15
The Senate Armed Services Committe voted unanimously yesterday to draft 18-year-olds for a
period of 26 months. The bill will go to the Senate floor next week.
Princeton defeated Villanova on the basketball court, 60-49. Mike Kearns scored 20.
The theme for the Junior Prom will be "A Night in France" with a street in Paris as the
main feature. A miniature Arch of Triumph will lead to the entrance to the refreshment
booth.
The Student Christian Association will hold its annual meeting and banquet tomorrow night
at 6 in the Princeton Methodist Church.
Operation Pacific, with John Wayne, Ward Bond and Patricia Neal, is at the Playhouse.
The Rocking Horse Winner, with Valerie Hobson and John Mills, is at the Garden.
The swim team defeated Penn last night in Philadelphia, 51-24,
Colonial Club captured the first term inter-club hockey championship with Ivy second.
Reunion and West shared the top spot in the inter-dorm league.
The New Jersey College for Women Glee Club invaded the Campus last night to practice with
the Princeton Glee Club for their joint concert tomorrow evening in New Brunswick.
The special Tiger Valentine issue is out today. There is a seven-page spread on the
1951 Bicker.
The Princeton Committee for American Relief for Central Europe has issued an appeal for
funds and clothing to be sent to several hundred needy German families.
Friday, February 16
UN blockades Wonson Harbor.
The Marine Corps has announced a new Officer Candidate Course, open to college seniors
and graduate students. Required for admission is a bachelor's degree which is not a medical,
dental or theological degree. Men who are accepted will be definitely deferred from the
draft. Candidates will spend ten weeks at Paris Island, after which they will go to Quan-
tico to train for a second lieutenant's commission. This is a new program and has no con-
nection with any previously offered Marine program.
The "Princeton Special" chartered flight to Bermuda during the Easter recess has been can-
celled because the Government has requisitioned the plane from Capital Airlines for use by
the military.
The Undergraduate Council voted down a proposed constitutional amendment which would per-
mit members to appoint permanent representatives to the Council in lieu of personal
attendance.
Highlighting the Alumni Day program next Thursday will be a panel discussion on "Why Are We
in Danger of Losing the Ideological War With World Communism?" Arthur Krock '08 will be the
moderator of a panel consisting of Edward Barrett '32, Allen Dulles '14, William Eddy '17,
Charles Jackson '24, Alexander Smith '01 and Adlai Stevenson '22.
The Chinese Communists have taken control of Yenching University, according to a Peking
radio report on February 13. This Christian college, which has received support from
Princetonians since 1928, had been allocated 7% of this year's SCA fund drive. The money
has not been sent since all pledges have not yet been collected.
The Jazz Club will resume its regular weekly series of lectures and discussions of the his-
tory of jazz this afternoon at 4 in Clio. Count Basie will be today's subject.
Today's "Prince" has an ad offering a 10-day spring holiday in Puerto Rico for $195. In-
cluded is lodging at the Condado Beach Hotel, air transportation by Pan Am, and a series
of special events while on the island.
Where Danger Lives, with Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Maureen O'Sullivan and
Claude Rains, is at the Garden.
The track team set a new meet record in winning the Polar Bear triangular track meet from
Penn and Columbia in New York on Wednesday. Dick Snedeker won both the mile and two-mile
events.
Another ad today offers cottage guest house lodging in Bermuda for only $6 per day.
Monday, February 19
President Dodds, Senator Wayne Morse and Assistant Secretary of Defense Marx Leva appeared
on Eleanor Roosevelt's television program to clarify the present draft situation.
Princeton students have been invited to attend a student forum on relations between Russia
and the U.S. to be held at Penn on February 23.
Cornell defeated the Tiger cagers, 59-55, essentially ending Princeton's title hopes.
Thirty-five men from 12 colleges will be chosen by the U.S. Weather Bureau to work at
weather stations above the Arctic Circle. Principal requirements are good health, clear-
ance by the student's college, and clearance from the student's draft board.
The influenza epidemic which struck Fort Dix has by-passed Princeton, according to sources
at the Infirmary.
Herman Weyl, Professor of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study and one of the
world's foremost mathematicians, will begin a series of four lectures on the subject of
"Symmetry" this afternoon at 5 in Frick Auditorium.
The Enforcer, with Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel and Ted de Corsia, is at the Play-
house. Lives of a Bengal Lancer, with Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone and Richard Crom-
well, is at the Garden.
In Saturday sports Army won the track meet, 86-48, Harvard defeated the squash men, 9-0,
the fencers lost to CCNY, 15-12, and the hockey team lost to Dartmouth, 5-4. The wrest-
lers defeated Yale, 16-13, and the swimmers lost to North Carolina, 40-35
Tuesday, February 20
The Sons of Confederate Veterans will inaugurate a Princeton chapter Friday at 4;30 pm at
a meeting in the Cabinet Room of Murray-Dodge.
Sex has come to Princeton via the airwaves in the form of "The Lonesome Gal," broadcast
nightly by WPRU between 11 and 11:15. The show, sponsored by Bond Street pipe tobacco, is
transcribed and presented under the auspices of the Ivy Network. Response to the sultry-
voiced female disc jockey and her comments on life have been favorable.
David Adams, president of the Undergraduate Interclub Council, announced that all Sophomore
eligibles have been seen at least once by one or more Bicker committees.
The board cost for club rate men has been raised to $16 for those eating all their meals at
their clubs, and $10.50 for those serving as captains at Commons. The new rates are retro-
active to February 1, the first day of the spring term.
Ted Bermingham's "File 13" column in today's "Prince" attempts to define each club with a
single word. See Ted at the 50th for a copy.
Cannon Club took the IAA "A" league lead by defeating Cottage, 32-28, last night.
Wednesday, February 21
Operation Killer launched to drive Chinese and North Koreans out of
South Korea.
The controversy over alleged hiring discrimination at the local Woolworth store has been
resolved and the store will hire two Negro sales women.
Because of the betting scandal involving three of its players, Long Island University has
cancelled the remainder of its basketball season, will also cancel all other intercol-
legiate athletics and return its athletic programs to an intra-mural basis.
Commenting on the latest developments in the New York City basketball fix scandals, Ken
Fairman condemned athletic commercialism, branding it a "monster."
The Interclub Committee took steps last night to insure that no ironbounds would be broken
in the late stages of the Bicker. Chairman David Adams said his group would recommend to
Assistant Dean Lippincott that all men who signed up in an ironbound be forced to go into
a club together.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has been accused of manslaughter in 84 indictments, one for each
person killed in the Woodbridge train wreck.
The Undergraduate Council Committee on Retrenchment will hold its first open forum Sunday
night at 7:30 in the Social Science Lounge of the Firestone Library.
The House Armed Services Committee has set the minimum draft age at 18 and a half and will
require six months of training before a man can be sent into combat, assuring that no
one under 19 will be sent into combat.
At the beginning of the spring term at the University of California 23 courses had to be
cancelled because the faculty members who usually gave the courses had been suspended for
failing to sign the Regents' loyalty oath.
The Princeton Skating Club is planning an ice carnival on March 16 and 17 in Baker Rink.
The swim team lost to Rutgers, 46-29.
Lake Carnegie is now free of ice, permitting the crew to start hard work preparing for
the coming season.
Thursday, February 22
The New Jersey director of the draft announced there will be no wholesale deferment of
men who graduated at mid-term. He was clarifying misunderstandings generated by a bulletin
that said such graduates would be given 30 days to find jobs in essential industries.
In order to avoid future sports scandals Asa Bushnell '21, oommissioner of the Eastern
Collegiate Athletic Conference, suggests that the ECAC and other similar groups consider
rules changes.
In Friday's "Prince" President Dodds opens a new series of columns on the editorial page
by members of the Princeton family. "Princeton Views on the News" will present their views
on current issues. Dr. Dodds topic is "Liberal Education in a Crisis World."
Minot Morgan '35, director of the Bureau of Student Aid and Employment, is concerned that
a potential 1000-man drop in enrollment will mean greatly curtailed opportunities for stu-
ent aid. Fewer students mean fewer customers for student agencies and therefore fewer jobs.
The Office of Public Relations has submitted a report to the National Security Resources
Board by way of the U.S. Commissioner of Education. In 81 pages it outlines the possible
and actual contributions to the nation's emergency needs that Princeton can make.
Uncertainty in the draft laws and therefore the number of students next year is
causing the dormitory office serious problems in planning room allocation for next
year.
The clubs are facing serious financial problems if the draft seriously reduces enrollment.
The Undergraduate Council has launched a study of a reduced enrollment's impact on extra-
curricular activities.
A curtailed athletic program is a very real possibility for the coming school year.
"The Middle Ages in the Holy Land," is the topic of three lectures to be given at Prince-
ton by the well-known Egyptian historian, Dr. Aziz S. Atiya of Farouk University.
The February Princeton Engineer was distributed yesterday evening. It contains an
article by Richard Snedeker titled "London's Fabulous Tubes," and "A General Motors Assem-
bly Operation" by Richard Madden.
Friday, February 23
Jack Davison received the highest honor Princeton can bestow when President Dodds presented
him the Pyne Honor Prize at the Alumni Day luncheon yesterday.
Riding a second half rally the cagers defeated Yale, 57-41, in Dillon Gym yesterday.
A total of 12,145 Princeton alumni, parents and friends contributed $519,438 to the annual
giving campaign, which started last fall with a goal of $500,000.
Triangle Club adopted a number of amendements to its constituion at a special meeting yes-
terday.
In a letter to the chairman of the "Prince," Eldo Netto '53 and Sanford Farrer '52 de-
plore the "insidious commercialism" which prompts WPRU to air "The Lonesome Gal."
They demand "the removal from the air of this flagrant insult to human dignity and
intelligence."
At War With The Army, with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, is at the Playhouse. Nanook
of the North is at the Garden.
Eli skaters downed the Tigers, 9-1, and Yale defeated the squash team, 6-3.
Donald Stokes won the 1876 Memorial Debate Prize yesterday at Whig Hall.
Monday, February 26
According to the Princeton police Sherman Brown and John Noble went on a shooting rampage
last night, shooting out six street lights on Prospect Street before being arrested.
The cagers defeated Dartmouth, 70-69, with a basket with 19 seconds to go in Dillon Gym. It
was Princeton's 15th consecutive win at home.
The appointment of Professor Courtland Perkins as chairman of the Department of Aeronauti-
cal Engineering was announced yesterday by President Dodds.
The 1951 Bicker enters its final phase tonight when the three-night open house period be-
gins in the clubs. Approximately 700 Sophomore eligibles are expected to visit the clubs.
Flu has struck the Borough, closing the public schools. The University has been immune so
far, but the Infirmary expects to see a surge in cases soon.
The Senate is planning to begin debate on the draft bill early this week. Senator Robert
Taft is firm in his desire for a minimum draft age of 18 and a half.
The U.S. Public Health Service recently studied the brain waves of Albert Einstein and J.
Von Neumann to determine if they were different from those of ordinary people.
To the Chairman of the Daily Princetonian:
to Mssrs. Netto and Farrer
It seems there's consternation
In this particular location,
Over an unseen sensation
Whose name is Lonesome Gal.
It's the Gal's solicitation
And her sexy exhortation
To use a conglomeration
A certain Bond Street preparation
Which is the initiation
Of their cry for immediate cessation
Of this public osculation,
Though everyone I've talked to thinks
It's funny as hell.
Now after condensation
Of their cry extirpation
It's also PRU's motivation
Which seems to be bothering these guys.
It's my personal observation
That their biased presentation
Of PRU's capitalistic degradation
Has no proven correlation
To the real issue.
So, without further dispensation
I will make the protestation
That their righteous indignation
Is a simple sublimation
Of intense frustration,
No doubt a creation
Of the unresolved, complex
Interacting forces between
Super-ego and ego
Brought on by
Modern civilization.
Ernest Robert
The hockey team defeated Harvard, 5-4, as Chuck Weeden scored the hat trick.
The wrestlers lost to Harvard, 17-13, while the Cantab swimmers prevailed, 50-25.
The fencers defeated Harvard, 19-9.
In the IC4A meet at Madison Square Garden Saturday night Princeton was able to score only
3 and 1/7 points.
The Steel Helmet, with Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, Gene Evans and Richard Low, is
at the Playhouse. Three Little Words, with Fred Astaire, Vera Ellen, Red Skelton,
Arlene Dahl, Keenan Wynn and Gloria Dehaven, is at the Garden.
The candidates for president of the Class of 1951 are William Robinson, William Marquet,
George Chandler, Redmond Finney, William Grady and Alexander Trowbridge.
The preliminary list of candidates for degrees in June, 1951, is posted on the bulletin
board, first floor, west end of Nassaur Hall. All seniors should consult this list and
report any corrections to the Registrar's Office by Friday, March 2.
Tuesday, February 27
The Intensely Vigorous Jazz Band will play at the midnight intermission of the Junior Prom.
Other events over the weekend will include Intime's production of Pirandello's "King Henry
IV" on Friday and Saturday evenings, a band concert on Friday and various sports events.
The Princeton chapter of the American Veterans Committee will meet tonight at Avalon to
draft a domestic platform.
Second Lieutenant Douglas Haag '49, missing in action since July 12, 1950, has been
awarded the Silver Star, becoming the first Princetonian to be cited for gallantry in
the Korean war
Deans Godolphin, Brown and Lippincott have attacked a Look article on the draft by
former Princeton instructor Robert Myers "as beating straw men" and offering no
solutions.
The current exhibit at the Firestone Library features the past thirty years in the history
of the Theatre Intime.
Stephen Wiley has been elected to the National Executive Council of the United World
Federalists at a meeting in New York.
The Bicker open house hours for tonight and tomorrow night are 7:30 to 10:30.
The fourth annual Campus United Jewish Appeal will start on Wednesday, March 7 with the
first meeting of the solicitation committee. The goal is $2,000. The funds will be distri-
buted to the Joint Distribution Committee, the United Palistine Appeal and the United Ser-
vice for New Americans.
Ernest Stock '49, recent visitor to Israel, spoke and showed movies to a Hillel Foundation
group at its regular Friday evening Sabbath eve services.
The Princeton University Band will give a concert of classical and light music at 8:30 pm
Friday night in Alexander Hall. Tickets are $1.00.
Wednesday, February 28
Last enemy resistance south of Han River collapses.
Harvard cagers upset the Tiger, 64-59>
Two Negro women reported for work at Woolworth's Nassau Street store yesterday morning, thus
officially concluding a dispute over discrimination in hiring.
Whig-Clio's fifth Candlehight Dance of this season is slated for Saturday night, March 3,
it was announced yesterday. Free beer and pretzels will be available from 9 to 12, as
students and their dates dance to the music of Bill Eggert's six piece orchestra. Tickets
are $1.20 for members and $2.00 for non-members.
The Senior Class Prom will be held on the evening of June 11 in Dillon Gym, prom chairman
Jay Schwamm announced yesterday. A band has not yet been selected. Assisting Schwamm on
the prom committee are Walter Clemons, David Colwell, Kenneth Frost, Clinton Gilbert,
William Grady, William Kleinsasser, Donald Marcus, John Mott and Richard White.
An unofficial poll of Bicker committees showed that about 650 men, or 92% of the 692 reg-
istered eligibles, have received bids. Ten of the clubs had definitely closed their sect_
ions by last night with a wide disparity in the section sizes. Quadrangle closed its sect-
ion with 63 men, the largest, and Ivy closed with 17, the smallest section. The average
section appears to be about 38 or 39 men.
The Tigertones have elected to accept the invitation of the Hilton Hotels and spend seven
days in Bermuda. They will perform informally at cocktail hour and give two shows nightly,
performing at three Hilton Hotels; Castle Harbour, St. George and Mid-Ocean Club. Making the
trip with president Karl Rauschert will be William Allan, Wilbur Couch, Chester Davis,
David Klipstein, William Paxton, Christopher Carver '52, Glenn Paxton '53 and George
Vaughan '53.
A barn on the Cherry Hill road two miles north of town was destroyed by fire because so
many townspeople and students rushed to see the fire the fire department could not get
through the congestion in time to put out the blaze.
Harvey, with Jimmy Stewart and Josephine Hall, is at the Playhouse. Bicycle Thief
is at the Garden.
The problems and rewards of the missionary field will be the subject of discussion at the
Princeton Evangelical Fellowship sponsored "Missionary Conference" to be held Saturday and
Sunday, March 3 an 4 in the Cabinet Room of Murray-Dodge.
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