May, 1951
Tuesday, May 1
Twentieth Century Fox invaded the Campus yesterday and hired 15 students to act as extras
in the shooting of eight scenes for the new movie, Doctor Praetorious. The extras
were hired yesterday morning through the Bureau of Student Employment and were paid $10
each for the day of work. Their jobs are over since filming moves to New York tomorrow.
Economy in all fields of athletics, but curtailment of hardly any intercollegiate sports
seems to be the retrenchment outlook for the Athletic Department for the coming year.
Ken Fairman indicates that the main problem he faces is the reduction of sports revenues
by $50,000 to $55,000 from this year's level.
The deadline for entries to the Quartet Contest is Thursday, May 3rd.
Senior Prom committee member Donald Marcus announced that tickets will go on sale today
at the U-Store for $6.00 for couples, $4.80 for male stags and $1.20 for female stags.
Elliot Forbes will succeed Professor Merrill Knapp, who is resigning as Glee Club direct-
tor because he is receiving a Bicentennial Preceptorship and will be on sabbatical leave
next year. Except for four years in the Navy, Knapp has directed the Glee Club since 1941.
In preparation for the crew's big Compton Cup race Saturday Sumner Gambee has been
moved from bow to no. 3.
Wednesday, May 2
More liberal car rules have been promulgated for Houseparty Weekend in that they con-
tain no provsision prohibiting the use of automobiles early Saturday morning. The rules are:
1. No cars will be allowed in Princeton before 8 am Friday, May 4.
2. No undergraduate may drive an auto between the hours of 3 am and 8 am Sunday. Guests
must be returned to their weekend residence by 2 am Sunday.
3. No cars may be taken out of the Borough between 7 pm Saturday and 8 am Sunday except
to make train connections at Princeton Junction or Trenton.
General rules for the weekend prohibit drinking in automobiles and use of the club bars
after 4 am Saturday and 1:30 am Sunday. Every girl must be checked into her place of resi-
dence by 2 am Sunday. Undergraduates will be locked out of the clubs at that time. The
usual 8 am rule applies to dorm rooms. Identification cards will be distributed to each
club member in good standing and each male guest. The cards must be shown when requested
by Proctors or the Pinkertons that will be at each club entrance.
The deadline for applying to take the May 26 draft deferment exam is this weekend.
Tests will also be given on June 16 and June 30.
The Board of Governors of Cannon Club and Charter Club have approved the student waiter
plan, but with reservations. Cannon stipulated that either all 16 clubs or the six old-
est must also approve the plan before it will be allowed in Cannon. Charter will
require that 14 other clubs must partcipate. Both Boards made it clear that the
present undergraduate members must also approve.
The First Army will review the ROTC today and tomorrow.
Six Italian sailors who had jumped ship at various Eastern ports during recent weeks were
picked up by immigration officials here early yesterday at the homes of relatives with
whom they had been staying.
Andy's chromium diner was moved into its place about a block from the Library on
Nassau Street yesterday. It will open in two to three weeks.
The Wine and Game Shop is offering Scotch for Houseparty Weekend at prices of $5.62 to
$5.78 per fifth.
Only the Valiant, with Gregory Peck, Barbara Payton, Ward Bond and Lon Chaney, is
at the Playhouse. Orpheus, with Jean Marais, Francois Perier, Maria Casares and
Maria Dea, is at the Garden.
Jim Fairchild's booming triple with two men on base followed by Will Prior's linedrive
single in the top of the eighth gave Princeton a 4-3 win at Rutgers yesterday.
The varsity track team will be seeking its first victory over Yale since 1941 when they
meet in Palmer Stadium Saturday.
Thursday, May 3
From May 3 to May 31 the Senate holds "Great Debate" on U.S. Korean War policy.
The Faculty Committee on Non-Athletic Extra-Curricular Activities will consider a pro-
posal to merge the Nassau Herald and the Bric-A-Brac.
The class officer elections for the Classes of 1952, 1953 and 1954 will be held today.
The Bureau of Student Placement has experienced a severe drop in applications from the
Senior Class. Gordon Sikes believes students have become too obsessed with the prospect
of military service.
Volpone plays its last two performances tonight and tomorrow night at Murray Theater.
Waring Jones has received third place honors for his "Gloris Stein" collection in the 26th
Annual Princeton Book Collecting Contest sponsored by the Library.
The foreign policy of the U.S. in the Far East and MacArthur's firing will be the subjects
of a special discussion of the Whig-Clio Senate tonight at 9
The Princeton Glee Club will give its final concert of the year tomorrow night at 8:15
in Alexander Hall.
The golf team defeated Seton Hall, 7-0, for its fifth win of the year.
The lacrosse team defeated Penn, 17-3, for its twelfth consecutive win. Don Hahn had 3
goals and 4 assists.
The tennis team won its eighth consecutive match when it defeated Penn, 9-0.
The Philadelphia Warriors of the NBA have made Mike Kearns a fifth round draft pick.
Friday, May 4
Hordes of girls have begun their annual migration to Tigertown to join the festivities
of Houseparties Weekend, which range from the usual dances , parties, "moonshine" and
athletic events to a biology seminar. Although informal warm-up gatherings have dotted
the Campus all week, official partying begins this evening with cocktail parties, dinners
and formal dances at all 17 clubs. Approximately 2,000 visitors are expected. Tonight
club members must stay in their own clubs until 1:00 am, but after that, and on Saturday,
when dance and jazz bands will play at the clubs, every man who has a Houseparties
identification card is free to wander up and down the Street.
Police shots fired at a running man interrupted the quiet of Nassau Street near Commons
Wednesday night around 11:30., but the frightened runner made good his escape.
Perkins Wilson received the U.S. Army Artillery ROTC Medal, the highest honor that can be
given an ROTC cadet, at the Princeton ROTC First Army Review held yesterday.
President Dodds will speak on radio station WOR at 9:30 Sunday night on "Peace Through
Unity--Our Only Hope for Survival." He will speak under the auspices of the Committee on
the Present Danger of which he is a member. The program is presented weekly.
Reminding students of the large quantity of valuables stolen on past Houseparties Week-,
end Mike Kopliner urges that dorm rooms and cars be locked when empty.
Meet the Invisible Man, with Abbott & Costello, Nancy Guild and Adele Jergens,
is at the Garden.
Saturday, May 5
Today the staff of the Daily Princetonian has produced a four-page parody of the
Campus newspaper under the banner The Gaily Printsanything.
Monday, May 7
Princeton has survived another Houseparty Weekend.
The varsity crew beat Harvard on the Charles River Saturday to take the Compton Cup. It
was Princeton's first win over Harvard since 1936 and broke Harvard's string of 9 consec-
utive Compton Cup wins. MIT was third.
Borough police apprehended two men, allegedly laden with goods stolen from the Prospect
Street Clubs.
Woodrow Wilson Fellowships have been awarded to Paul Bator, Gary Becker, Robert Belknap,
Wendell Deitrich, James Gorter, Richard Murphy and Robert Rafner. The program was
launched in 1945 to aid men who intend to pursue a career in teaching.
The baseball team moved into a tie for first place in the EIBL by beating Dartmouth,10-6,
Friday and edging Georgetown, 3-1, on Saturday.
With 6 goals Bill Griffith led the lacrosse team to a 16-7 win over Navy Saturday. Don
Hahn had seven assists. It was the thirteenth straight win over a two year period.
President Dodds urged caution in our Far East policy during his radio speech last night.
My Forbidden Past, with Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas and Lucile
Watson, is at the Playhouse. A Day at the Races, with the Marx Brothers is at the
Garden.
The golfers beat Navy, 6-1.
The track men lost to Yale in Palmer Stadium, 81-59.
The tennis team continued to roll with an 8-1 win over Harvard on the Church courts.
Tuesday, May 8
President Dodds announced the appointment of Assistant Professor Robert Goheen '38 to the
newly-endowed Scribner Preceptorship in the Classics. He also announced the appoint-
ment of six assistant professors to Bicentennial Preceptorships. They are Douglas
Alden, Modern Languages; Marvin Bernstein, Politics; Elliot Forbes, Music; Walter Kauff-
man, Philosophy; Courtney Smith, English; Melvin Tumin, Economics and Social Institut-
ions. The purpose is to the strengthen the Faculty at the assistant professor level.
Tenure is for three years and they will receive salaries higher than normal for an
assistant professor.
The four officers-elect of the Class of 1952 have asked for a re-vote because only 273
members of the Class voted in the recent election. Undergraduate Council chairman Richard
Murphy announced there will be an open meeting of the Elections Committee today at 1 pm
in the Cabinet Room of Murray-Dodge.
Undergraduates will be requested during the next few weeks to make their rooms available
to alumni for reunions.
The University has accepted 1,100 for the Class of 1955, and expects about 750 will enroll.
Despite the possible shortfall in funds for student aid no limit was set on student aid
recipients.
Professor Knapp has not resigned as reported by the "Prince" on May 1. Rather he is taking
a sabbatical and will return to Princeton when it is completed.
A total of 308 students are enrolled in the Princeton Blood Donor Program and 75 have
actually given blood; three have given twice.
May 15 is the deadline for applying for the draft deferment exam to be given on May 26.
Two undergraduates have been required to withdraw for submitting plagarized essays in
violation of the Instructions for the Writing of Essays.
The rugby team defeated Harvard, 8-0
The Compton Cup win over Harvard has established the crew as best in the East.
Wednesday, May 9
U.S. Air Force launches 300-plane strike on Sinuiju on Yalu River.
New elections for Class of 1952 officers will be held Thursday night.
A freight train wreck at New Brunswick is holding up travel on the Pennsylvania Railroad
and will do so for an indefinite period
Dr. Henry Smith '35, director of the School of Language Training of the State Department,
will deliver the Spencer Trask Public Lecture today at 4:45 in 28 McCosh. His topic will
be "Language and Human Behavior."
Two of the winning plays and an alternate third in the Theatre Intime one act competition
will be presented May 10-12 in Murray Theater. Winner of the first prize of $50 is
Waring Jones for his Monday Is the Easiest Day of the Week. However, due to
technical difficulties in producing it, another Jones' creation, Children of the
Early World, will be given. Up Running River by William Bermingham will also
be staged.
The "Prince" reports that a "blazing orange '24" was painted on the canon in Canon
Green last night, apparently a protest by older alumni against undergraduate abuse of
of the canon.
The Princeton University Concert Band will give a program of band music tonight at 7:30
in front of Nassau Hall.
The golf team defeated Cornell, 5-2.
Seniors, plus any other undergraduates who wish to attend, have been invited to the Senior
Prom at Ladycliff College on Saturday, May 19. Those interested should contact George
Chandler at 14 South Dodd before May 10.
Follow the Sun, with Glenn Ford, Anne Baxter, Dennis O'Keefe and June Havoc, is at
the Playhouse. Hamlet, with Laurence Olivier, is at the Garden.
Thursday, May 10
The Pennsylvania Railroad is working around the clock to clear the tracks and restore ser-
vice following one of the worst freight train wrecks in history.
The Navy is offering Navy Reserve commissions at the end of a four month course at a new
Officers Candidate School being opened at Newport, Rhode Island. The course is only open
to graduating Seniors who have completed one or more courses in trigonometry in college
or secondary school.
The basic concept of the student waiter plan was decisively defeated by an informal vote
of the Undergraduate Interclub Committee last night. The vote reflected the personal view
of presidents and not necessarily what they thought was the view of their membership as
a whole. Only the president of Prospect Club voted for the plan without reservations.
By a vote of 35 to 24 the undergraduate members of Tiger Inn voted to accept a student
waiter plan with reservations, and Court Club, in a very close vote, rejected the plan.
Tower and Elm had previously voted against the plan. Late last night, however, it was
revealed that dissatisfied elements of Tiger were circulating a petition calling for re-
consideration of the plan, asserting that less than 50% of the members voted, that some
members were not informed of the meeting, that the meeting was not conducted in accordance
with proper parliamentary procedure and discussion was suppressed. By 1 am this morning 64
members had signed the petition. Guy Newland, retiring president of Elm, reported that its
Graduate Board had rejected the plan last week.
The University chapter of the United World Federalists is sponsoring two world peace
seminars in Whig Hall tonight at 7;30, and on May 15 at 7:30.
Redmond Finney, president of the Class of 1951, yesterday announced the appointment of a
nine-man executive committee to aid the Class officers in conducting Class business. A
three year term will be served by George Chimples, Donald Hahn and Alexander Trowbridge,
a two year term by William Grady, George Hawke and Steven Wood, and a one year term by
James Gorter, George Mayer and Cabell Woodward>
Cannon won the club IAA track championship and Holder won the dorm division.
Friday, May 11
Tomorrow is Freshman Parents Day.
Jack Davison, president of Tiger Inn, says the vote on the student waiter plan was fair.
He has called a meeting next Tuesday to reconsider the plan, but not because of any
irregularities in the past meeting.
One of Princeton's great and really unfinished "cause celebres," the "Hite case," was
again brought to mind when John Hite, former English teacher, spoke on F. Scott Fitz-
gerald and related matters at Tower Club Wednesday night.
1,444 students will take the draft deferment test here on May 26. The Educational Testing
Service, which is administering the series of tests, has received 211,000 applications,
175,000 of whom will take the May 26 test and the remainder on June 16.
The Undergraduate Council voted unanimously last night to submit to President Dodds plans
for a new student center in Chancellor Green. The plans are in the form of professional
architectural layouts providing for facilities recommended by a Council committee. The
new center would include a food counter and soda fountain, dancing space, game rooms, TV,
reading room and lounge, and adequate rest room facilities for men and women.
The Princeton University Orchestra will present its third and final concert of the sea-
son at 8:30 Sunday night in Alexander Hall.
Results of the re-vote for Class of 1952 officers have not been tabulated because Cannon
Club and Tower Club failed to vote in yesterday's balloting. Since 442 men have voted the
Undergraduate Council will count the returns this afternoon even though the members of the
two clubs will not have voted. The Council also decided to count the ballots in accord-
ance with the instructions printed on the ballots.
The Amateur Fencing League of America will hold their annual Open Outdoor Three Weapon
Fencing Meet on the walks between 1901 Hall and the Dillon Gymnasium Saturday at 1:15.
Lightning Strikes Twice, with Ruth Roman, Richard Todd and Zachary Scott, is at
the Garden.
Monday, May 14
The baseball team lost to Brown,6-2, in Providence. According to the "Prince" the team
fielded poorly, threw wildly, ran bases stupidly, struck out frequently and left 12 men
on base in losing the game and possibly the Ivy crown."Brown now leads the league with
Princeton second and Navy third.
WPRU will air a radio version of This Side of Paradise tonight at 10:00
Professor Erik Lonroth of Uppsala University, Sweden, will deliver a lecture entitled
"The Saga and Historical Reality" in McCosh 28 tomorrow night at 8.
The re-vote by the Junior Class produced the same result as the first ballot.
Freshman football and baseball coach Matt Davidson has received an honorary citation from
Ithaca College, his alma mater.
The Yale varsity outrowed Princeton on Lake Cayuga to take the Carnegie Cup. Cornell was
third. It was the first time since 1939 that Yale had won the Cup.
The tennis team defeated the West Side Tennis Club, 6-3. For the first time this year
the team had not clinched victory during the singles competition.
The trackmen lost to Cornell, 77-63. Carlton Jacob won the javelin throw and tied
for first in the pole vault.
The lacrosse team defeated Yale, 17-1, moving one step closer to the National Inter-
collegiate and Open Championships. Yale did not score until late in the last quarter.
Appointment With Danger, with Alan Ladd, Phyllis Calvert, Paul Stewart and Jan
Sterling, is at the Playhouse. A Message to Garcia, with Barbara Stanwyck, Alan
Hale, Wallace Berry and Mona Barrie, is at the Garden.
Douglas MacDaid is offering gabardine suits for $59.50.
Tuesday, May 15
The commander of the Princeton ROTC unit has announced that all Senior members will be
called to active duty during the summer. Men who have had 24 months prior military service
will not be called unless they volunteer.
President Dodds has sent a letter to the heads of the graduate boards and the undergrad-
uate presidents of the Prospect Street eating clubs urging them to approve the student
waiter plan. The letter says "Adoption of a student waiter plan by the clubs is the sole
remaining means for meeting the major part" of the $145,000 student aid deficit fore-
cast for the 1951-52 academic year.
In a straw vote last night Campus approved the student waiter plan by a 37-31 tally. Mean-
while, Minot Morgan presented the plan to Cap and Gown members at the club last night.
The Annual Giving Fund came to a close last night having achieved a near-record total
of $529,435.
New York governor Thomas Dewey visited the Campus yesterday. It was a delayed Parents'
Day visit, since he could not be here on Saturday, May 12. His primary concern was the
academic progress of his son.
Crows have devoured 40 goldfish from the pool in Prospect Gardens, according to Mrs. Dodds,
who is desperately looking for a solution to the problem.
Only a few hours after his removal from office as president of Rollins College Sunday
evening, Paul Wagner declared that the meeting which ousted him was "illegal" and chal-
lenged the 11 trustees to make their decision stick. This action comes after two months
of wrangling over his firing of 23 faculty members for "financial reasons. Members of
the board suspected that the progressive educator had fired the faculty members because
they refused to conform to his campaign for visual education as opposed to the old reading
and lecture method. Most of the student body walked off the campus last week declaring
they would not return until Wagner went. Following the board action they gathered on the
campus to cheer his dismissal.
Sager's is selling oxford button down shirts for $3.80.
The Yacht Club placed second in the America Cup regatta at Annapolis last Saturday. Navy
was first and Georgetown third. Princeton qualified for the National Intercollegiate
Championships at MIT, June 19-22. They will be competing with Navy and 6 other schools.
The golfers finished second in the Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Association Championships
held at Yale. Yale was first, Dartmouth third and Navy fourth.
Wednesday, May 16
Chinese launch second step, fifth phase offensive.
(The front page of today's "Prince" is not available.)
The following letter appears on today's editorial page:
Advice From The Departing
I would like to issue a warning to the students of Princeton to be on the alert against
some new twist of the Nassau Hall line in the next few weeks.
Now is the time of year, just before finals and comps, when the wheels in the
administration like to announce sweeping, anti-student decisions. The undergraduates
all have their noses too close to the grindstone to fight for their interests, and our
wise officials are aware of that fact.
Three years ago this month the good Dean banned bars from student's rooms. Now
the right-to-keep-your-liquor-in-an-orderly-way is no more, and is not even thought about
any more, although the campus was furious at the time.
Two years ago the Administration clamped down on club parties, and slapped a limit
on the number of football week-ends which could be celebrated with Prospect St. part-
ies. At the same time the clubs were banned from housing girls during the Yale or Har-
ard week-ends, and party privileges were almost abolished for those occasions, once the
high point of the football season. Again the students complained, and forgot.
Last year the University, defeated in its attempt to force the 18th Club on the
Sophomores, rested on its oars in May.
What will happen this year? Will Houseparties follow Derby Day out the window? Will
prohibition be re-installed? Let's hope not. Let's hope that in the future the Adminis-
tration will announce its controversial decisions when the students have a chance to put
up a decent battle for their rights, or at least for their interests.
David S. North
The Princeton nine blanked Colgate, 8-0, bringing the Tiger record to 14-3.
The Thing, with Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Sally Creighton and James Young,
is at the Playhouse. The Blue Lamp, with Jack Warner, Jimmy Hadley, Dirk Bogarde
and Bette Ann Davies, is at the Garden.
Thursday, May 17
Cap and Gown voted 85-23 to reject the student waiter plan. Court Club is still voting.
The baseball team beat Lafayette, 2-1, thanks to Will Prior's seventh-inning home run.
Despite the recent ECAC ruling allowing Freshmen to play varsity sports Princeton will
adhere to the present rules which prohibit Freshmen from playing varsity sports.
Students in 11 clubs and Commons were polled last night for the "Prince" Course Evaluation
Survey. The remaining six clubs will be polled tonight.
Dean Godolphin released the following regulations governing the use of autos by members
of the Senior Class.
1. No student other than a Senior shall operate or ride in an auto belonging to a Senior.
2. A Senior operating an auto does so with the understanding that any action reflecting
upon the the good name of the University shall subject him to discipline, including the
possibility of withholding or suspending the granting of his diploma.
3. Permission to operate an auto does not include permission to drive on the Campus, ex-
cept to remove personal belongings prior to returning home.
The decorative motif of the traditional Senior Prom, scheduled to be held this year in
Dillon Gym on the night of June 11, will be strictly Princetonian instead of Arabian or
Parisian, as is customary at other dances.
The annual Lynde Senior Debate first prize of $115 was won by Donald Stokes.
Tower Club members unanimously volunteered to give blood for their ailing doorman.
The varsity golfers won the Metropolitan Golf Championship yesterday afternoon in matches
in Howorth, New Jersey.
An exhibition titled "Princeton in Bronze" can be seen in the Princetoniana Room in the
Firestone Library. It features sculptures of prominent Campus figures executed by Joseph
Brown, assistant professor of Arts and Architecture, during his past ten years here.
Friday, May 18
Beginning with the issue of Monday, May 21, the "Prince" will publish only three times a
week; Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The concluding issue will be published on June 4.
Terrace Club has voted in favor of the student waiter plan by a 52-16 vote last night.
Colonial was overwhelmingly opposed to the plan by a 60-0 vote. An inconclusive vote at
Dial Lodge indicated favorable opinion of those present.
The SCA cabinet passed a compromise introduced by Martin Agnew which does away with de-
nominational membership. The Chapel Deacons abstained last night from taking a vote on
the compromise, which was brought about by the effort of the Unitarians to join SCA.
David Bohm's trial for contempt of Congress is scheduled for May 31. He is still under
suspension by the University and his contract, which expires in June, has not been renewed.
Commons employees turned down unionization by a vote of 34-14.
James Kerney '33, editor and publisher of the Trenton Times, will address a cor-
porate communion breakfast of the Princeton Catholic Club Sunday at the Nassau Tavern.
Draft boards have been ordered to not draft any students until the results of the draft
deferment test are known.
Raton Pass, with Dennis Morgan, Patricia Neal, Steve Cochran and Dorothy Hart, is
at the Garden.
Sunday, May 20
Chinese offensive halted.
Monday, May 21
EUSA counterattacks to drive enemy out of South Korea.
Court voted 61-26 for the student waiter plan, but with ten reservations. Cloister voted
against the plan by a 61-11 margin. An informal vote at Ivy was inconclusive.
The Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Foundation has awarded a fellowship to Marcus Knowlton
for the academic year 1951-52.
Selective Service officials estimate that 500,000 students will be deferred next year
under the Government's present rules.
Robert Belknap and James Gorter have been awarded Fulbright scholarships for foreign
study during the 1951-52 academic rule.
The baseball team defeated Seton Hall, 8-3.
Plans for the new AROTC unit have been expanded to include between 150 and 200 members
of the Class of 1955.
President Griswold has dismissed the 70 maids who have been cleaning Yalie rooms.
The SCA clothing drive will be held door-to-door tonight. The clothes are for the 15
displaced students who are coming to Princeton in the fall.
The perfect lacrosse season came to end yesterday as Army won, 15-12.
Today the "Prince" prints the honor system constitution in its entirety.
The Yale crew defeated Harvard and Princeton in the Eastern Sprint Championship final
Saturday on Lake Carnegie. The varsity final was the first time in 80 years of rowing
that the Big Three have met in a triangular race at the heavyweight level.
The track squad finished 6th in the Heptagonal meet in Providence Saturday.
The tennis team beat Yale, 7-2, at New Haven Friday, and beat Dartmouth by an 8-1 count
at Hanover on Saturday. The twin wins gave the Tiger the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis
Association title. They have now won 9 matches this year, and have been undefeated three
of the last four years. They have now won 24 straight matches since 1949.
The golfers lost their undefeated season when they lost to Yale, 5-2, in New Haven.
Wednesday, May 23
President Truman has nominated Professor Henry Smyth, of the Physics Department, for
for a second five-year term on the Atomic Energy Commission.
Jack Davison was named "Most Respected" and "Most "Popular" in the results of the Senior
Class Poll revealed yesterday. In the voting for the 45 individual positions, the complete
results of which will be published in the Class Day program, Redmond Finney has been
named "Best All-Around Athlete" and Robert Jennings, "Best All-Around Man Outside of
Athletics." "Most Brilliant," Most Likely to Succeed," and "Most Likely Future
Millionaire," the latter shared with James Biddle, went to James Gorter.
"Best Dressed" and "Most Thorough Gentleman" went to Broadus Bailey. "Worst Dressed"
went to John Zabriskie. "I do" was the overwhelming choice by the Seniors for the one who
"Needs drag with the Faculty the most." Holland Donan was selected "Quietest." James
Mead edged out William Iler for "Biggest Bluffer" and Robert Jennings for "Smoothest."
However, Iler was selected "Most Likely Bachelor," "Greatest Woman Hater" amd "Done
Princeton for the Most." "Most Collegiate" is shared by William Grady and Maurice Cohill,
while Lewis Mudge gained "Most Uncollegiate." William Grady was also selected "Most
Typical Princeton Senior."
Other categories include "Most Original," Walter Clemons, "Most Entertaining," Cabell
Woodward, "Most Modest," Redmond Finney, "Most Unconscious," David Van Vleck, "Most
Ambitious," Richard Murphy, and "Talks Most and Says Least," Holland Donan. "Biggest
Grind" was Bruce Nichols, "Biggest Gloom" was Paul Peck, "Biggest Party Boy" was
James Brassill, and "Biggest Politician" was William Robinson.
Charles Taggart was "Handsomest," Michael Mahoney was "Best Natured," Donald Dike was
"Laziest," Carlton Jacobs was "Best Built" and William Davis was "Class Whale."
Chester Carey has received a Fulbright Scholarship to study economics at the University
of Manchester in England and George Weightman to study social sciences at the University
of the Philipines.
Friday, May 25
Dial Lodge undergraduates have approved the student waiter plan by a 48-43 vote. The Dial
graduate board has approved the plan with reservations. Although the Terrace
undergraduates approved the plan, the graduate board referred it to a committee for study.
More than 1,400 Princeton undergraduates will take the draft deferment test tomorrow.
Retiring lacrosse captain Donald Hahn was honored for the second straight year with the
John Edwards Higgenbottom trophy for sportsmanship and outstanding play.
A "banner year" in the history of Princeton is being celebrated by a special exhibition
at the Library of material added during the year to the Library's special collections.
Gordon Craig, followed closely by Harris Harbison, was voted "Favorite Professor" in the
the Senior Class Poll. Walter Hall and A. W. Sametz were best and runner-up preceptors,
and Charlie Caldwell was "Favorite Coach.""If" was "Favorite Poem" while "Invictus" amd
"To a Coy Mistress" tied for second. Following beer as the favorite beverage, milk, Scotch
and Guiness Stout tied for second place. "Let Me Overhaul Your Car" took third place after
Beethoven's "Fifth" and "Third" Symphonies in the voting for "Favorite Classical Music
Selection."
To the question, "What do you consider the highest achievement?," 50% said "Phi Beta Kap-
pa Key" while 13% said "Varsity P" and 37% said "Extra-curricular Wheeldom." 36% thinks
Senior year is the hardest while 38% thinks Sophomore was easiest. 64% thinks Senior
year is the most pleasant. 98% of the Senior Class thinks it has gotten what it wanted
from a Princeton education. 51% plan to continue study at the graduate level.
Stromboli was voted the "Worst Movie" and Elizabeth Taylor was selected as "Favorite
Desert Island Companion."
Lacrosse men Marty Owen, Chetty Carey, Clint Gilbert and Donald Hahn have been chosen to
play in the North-South All Star game to be played at Troy, New York.
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain, with Susan Hayward, Wiliam Lundigan, Rory Calhoun
and Alexander Knox, is at the Playhouse. Tomahawk, with Van Johnson,
Yvonne DeCarlo, Preston Foster and Jack Oakie, is at the Garden.
Cannon Club won the IAA club softball championshp while Lockhart-Hamilton B won the
dorm division. Dial, Campus and Elm tied for second in the club division. Ivy won the golf
title. Henry Hall took the dorm tennis crown.
At two recent meetings of the University Discipline Committee the following actions were
taken:
An undergraduate was required to withdraw from the University for violation of the auto
regulations.
An undergraduate was suspended for violation of the auto regulations.
Three undergraduates were suspended for violations of library regulations.
Three undergraduates were suspended and placed on Probation for vanalism and disorderly
conduct.
Monday, May 28
Overall curtailment of the issuing of automobile permits next fall looms as a strong like-
lihood as a result of abuse and violation of the regulations this year. Dean Godolphin re-
ported that an unusually large number of disciplinary cases in regard to car permits had
arisen since last fall.
1385 Princetonians took the draft deferment test Saturday. The Education Testing Service
expects 65% of those taking the test to pass. Local draft boards will receive the
scores within a month.
Princeton's extra-curricular activities will function at a near-normal level next year un-
less calls from Uncle Sam make much greater inroads into the enrollment than is expected
at the present time.
Student apathy has seriously weakened Campus political groups to the point that Robert
Rafner, president of the Liberal Union, fears that it may not be able to continue.
The year's final issue of MSS contains a number of works by members of the Class
of 1951. Prose pieces are The Poisoned Pastries, by Jose Donoso, Tale, by
Robert Belknap, and White-Stop, by Waring Jones. Poetry pieces were written by
Richard Pierson, J. N. Schullinger, Ted Bermingham, Stuart Krisel and Philip Atchison.
The baseball team defeated Penn, 6-0, to clinch an undisputed claim to the NCAA District 2
championship. The NCAA selection committee will meet today to select the teams playing for
the national championship.
Cornell's track team won its first I.C.4-A title since 1936 at Franklin Field Saturday.
No Princetonian survived the trial heats on Friday.
Go For Broke, with Van Johnson, Lane Nakano, George Miki and Akiri Fukunaga, is at
the Playhouse. Take Me Out to the Ball Game, with Esther Williams, Gene Kelly, Frank
Sinatra and Edward Arnold, is at the Garden.
Wednesday, May 30
EUSA returns to Line Kansas.
The new SPIA building will receive its cornerstone on Monday, June 11. It will be laid by
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.
The Faculty has postponed its decision on the proposed merger of the Bric-a-Brac and
the Nassau Herald.
Professor Bohm's trial is scheduled to begin tomorrow.
Terror of a new kind gripped the sixth entry of Laughlin this week when erroneous reports
were circulated that a 5-foot boa-constrictor named "Yardley" had escaped from his
owner's room and was at large somewhere in the entry.
Those who ordered copies of the Bric-a-Brac must pick them up this week at the
U-Store between 1 and 5 pm any day. They may also be purchased during those hours.
Most student organizations plan no cut-backs because of the draft before next fall.
Alumni have expressed grave concern over the apathy of the Senior Class towards Step
Singing.
Princeton's undefeated tennis team will not play in the National Intercollegiate Tennis
Championship this summer because of the ROTC summer camp commitments of Gil Bogley
and Chuck DeVoe, its top two players.
Six-inch orange P's for track have been awarded to Robert Akeley, Stanley Blumenfeld,
Robert Chamberlin, Edgar Davis, Dorion Fleming, Carlton Jacob, Benjamin McAlpin, Gayle
Price, Howard Siedler, Robert Snable, Richard Snedeker and William Swearer. Five-inch
orange P's have been awarded to Edgar Davis and Sidney Stone.
Six-inch orange P's for tennis have been awarded to John Doahower, John Eller and Archi-
bald Hewitt.
Six-inch orange P's for lacross have been awarded to Charles Albert, Cheston Carey, Ray-
mond Close, William Crane, Redmond Finney, Clinton Gilbert, Theodore Gould, William Grif-
fith, Donald Hahn and William Miller.
Extensive plans have been made to welcome all Princetonians and their guests at the
Marietta, Ohio, Regatta on June 16. Princeton headquarters will open a 9 am at the Parkers-
burg, West Virginia, Country Club, seven miles below Marietta. An observation train, ope-
rated by the B & O Railroad will run along the length of the course.
Princeton will represent District 2 at the college baseball "World Series" at Omaha,
Nebraska, June 13-17. The team will leave by plane right after graduation on June 12.
Tim Barclay and Richard Hayes are on a crew which will compete in the National Intercol-
legiate Sailing Championships at MIT on June 19-22.
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