SEPTEMBER, 1948
Saturday, September 18th
Returning undergraduates register for the Fall Term in Dillon Gymnasium. Some
delays are experienced in the first hours. The undergraduate enrollment of 3,400 for
1948-1949 is slightly less than last year, but is almost half again as large as the
University's greatest pre-war registration of 2,400. Total enrollment will reach
4,000 when the Graduate School registration is completed.
Sunday, September 19th
Formal ceremonies opening the 202nd academic year are held in the University Chapel.
President Harold Dodds describes the coming year as "one of the most critical periods
in the University's existence." The critical nature of the year ahead is due not only
to the swollen enrollment but from the urgent appeal for funds to be launched in
October. Annual Giving funds of $500,000 will be sought to pay for faculty wage
increases as of July 1st, and $5,000,000 of capital funds for additional endowment
of faculty salaries. Both appeals are being coordinated under the new Third Century
Fund.
Monday, September 20th
Richard A. Lester, wartime chairman of the Southern Textile Commission and the National
War Labor Board, has been appointed chairman of the Department of Economics and Social
Institutions. Arthur K. Parpart has been appointed chairman of the Biology Department.
Jacques Maritain has been appointed a full professor in the Philosophy Department.
The Class of 1952 has been advised that they must wear Dinks until Christmas unless
their football team beats Yale. The Class of 1951 has the duty to enforce the wearing
of the dinks.
Michael Kopliner has been designated head proctor. Due to increased thefts of bicycles
and thefts from rooms proctor patrols have been increased between midnight and dawn.
During the summer 800,000 books and 500,000 other articles were moved into the new
$6,000,000 Harvey S. Firestone Library, which is now open to students.
The Department of Physical Education and Athletics announces availability of its
membership book which, for a cost of $20, admits the holder to $80 of athletic events.
The Prince-Tiger dance will be held on Friday, November 5th, the night before the
Harvard game.
The Daily Princetonianannounces competition for editorial page columnists, open
to all undergraduates except first-term freshmen.
Dr. N. Howell Furman has been named winner of the Fisher Award in Analytical Chemistry.
The Fisher Award is the highest honor in the field of analytical chemistry.
The U-Store was renovated during the summer to alleviate long lines of book buyers and
bill payers.
The nation's first peacetime draft and the international situation will have a
significant impact on the undergraduate body. The ROTC expects almost 300 to enter
its program. More than 1,000 students registered for the draft in the Dillon Gym
last week.
Reorganized last year to replace the dink riots, the Cane Spree will be held later
this fall. Events will include touch football, softball, tug-of-war and wrestling.
All fall varsity sports teams, except football, begin practice this week.
Wednesday, September 22nd
Although Commons headwaiters are warning freshmen without dinks a Dining Hall survey
found that only 20% are wearing them. Cabell Woodward, president of the Sophomore
Class, indicated that a more strict policy may be forthcoming at the Commons doors.
Guy Hollyday '52, a member of the Freshman Council, admitted that Freshmen were not
wearing dinks because "they just want to spite the Sophomores."
The enrolled undergraduate body is 828 Seniors, 968 Juniors, 771 Sophomores and 806
Freshmen. There are expected to be twenty three late registrants.
Glee Club competition will begin tonight at 7:30. Princetonian competition
positions on the News Board will begin Monday, September 27th.
The Dillon Gymn pool is open for use. The pool, one of the best equipped in the
world, has all the latest devices for efficient operation and spectator convenience.
The movable wall at the west end permits events of various lengths while underwater
windows permit coaches to observe the swimmers in action.
George Chandler '51 will be the starting quarterback on the varsity football team.
The following article by Grenville Garside '51 appeared in today's Princetonian
SUMMER RAIDS SET NEW VOGUE--COCKTAIL PARTIES WITHOUT BARS-
Following close on the heels of an executive order from Nassau Hall, an estimated two
dozen bars were removed from University rooms in a series of well-planned, master-
fully executed sudden-death raids this summer.
In a communique issued last night, the administration gave high commendation to
to officials of the Grounds and Buildings Department responsible for the sucess of
the operation, nicknamed Vat 69. "The men who consecrated themselves to this task
deserve the greatest praise," the communique said.
According to reports received at the offices of the Daily Princetonian, the
field work of Vat 69 was carried out by a task force of grounds and buildings shock
troops, accompanied by University proctors armed with dummy World War I carbines on
loan from the Princeton ROTC. The public relations division of the Grounds and Build-
ing Department followed the shock troops and deposited placards reading "This bar
removed by order of the Dean."
The "no bars in rooms" rule was revived last May in an attempt to cut liquor consump-
tion on campus. In an interview last night, Dean Godolphin revealed that roughly two-
thirds of the bars in dormitory rooms had disappeared by the time the Grounds and
Building Department appeared on the scene. No reason was given for this unusual
occurence.
Dean Godolphin further revealed that several bars had been impounded, to be released
only upon official sanction from his office. The Dean noted that he had just released
a bar from the pound because it was "Grandmother's beloved bookcase, and never intend-
ed to be a bar." Another bar was returned because an ice box was attached.
(In Washington, the United Press quoted Attorney General Clark as saying that the
University was surpassing its limits in removing an ice box from a student's room.
"The 5th amendment," Clark said, "safeguards the right of a U. S. citizen against
removal of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.)
Thursday, September 23rd
WPRU will begin broadcasting on Monday, September 27th. Dave B. Lowry '51 will be
program director, and Reed Nimick '51 will be business manager. The station is
planning to broadcast from 5 to 12 five days a week, and to present the football
games over the Ivy Network. Fred Rheinstein's "Music Street", the "Concert Hour"
and "Request Parade" are shows being held over from last year.
The University Orchestra will hold its first rehearsal tonight at 8:30 in Alexander
Hall. Russell Cook, conductor of the Portland, Maine, Symphony will be in charge.
Last night's Undergraduate Council meeting heard Robert Owen '52, newly appointed
Chairman of the Freshman Council, presented an objection to the dink tradition. "The
fellows," he said, "don't see much in it, especially after hearing what the Class of
1951 did last year." Pointing out, in reply, that the dink question was "not one of
a conflict between freshmen and sophomores, but of a misunderstanding between fresh-
men and a tradition," the Council noted that the basic error made by the Class of
1950 was in allowing the tradition to lapse until too late in the year. Chairman
Ewing added that the dinks should be worn until Christmas vacation.
Meanwhile the first skirmish in the second annual "battle of the dinks" broke out
last night when a band of Sophomores, aided by a piano and an ice box, blocked the
south entrance to Holder Court during dinner time and demanded that all the Fresh-
men wear dinks. The fight was broken up by the appearance of proctor Frank Hogarty.
Freshmen reaction was varied; some put on their dinks when confronted, others took
theirs off and joined the fray.
The first of the football dances will be held on October 2nd, the night following
the Brown game. Hank Durrell and his band will provide the music. The fee is $2.40
per couple, or $1.80 stag.
By direction of the President of the United States, the Certificate of Merit will
be awarded tomorrow at 2 in Nassau Hall to 18 New Jersey scientists and engineers,
six of whom are professors at Princeton University. The awards will recognize out-
standing service to the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development.
The faculty recipients are Walker Bleakney, physics, Charles W. Bray II, psychol-
ogy, Edmund N. Harvey, biology, William E. Kappauf, Jr., psychology, Milton G.
White, psychology, and Samuel S. Wilks, mathematics.
The Class of 1951 will meet tonight at 7:30 in Alexander Hall.
Minot C. Morgan, director of the Bureau of Student Aid and Employment, urged all
undergraduates to patronize the agencies of the Bureau. He stated that "There are
50 men who need jobs that we can not place and an additional 50 or so who will be
dependent on odd jobs. If every student will think of the Bureau's agencies first,
the increase in volume of purchasing will enable us to expand our payroll and make
more badly needed employment opportunities open to students." The Bureau runs 25
businesses, of which the Student Tailer Shop is most profitable, and the snack bar
has the highest payroll, $5,000. The agencies are self-supporting and entirely free
from endowment-unlike Yale and many other colleges.
The Student Lunch-Ice Cream Agency announces resumption of its nightly service to
students' rooms. Cost: pint of milk or ice cream, 17 cents, sandwiches 23 cents.
Friday, September 24th
Food and labor costs has forced increases in board rates in Commons and the Clubs.
The Commons rate has been increased to $220 from $200, while the majority of the
clubs have either raised rates or plan to do so soon.
Whig-Clio's initial organizational meeting will be held next Wednesday, September
29th at 8:00 P. M. in Whig Auditorium.
A promise to attempt to revive the old preceptorial system was made yesterday at
the early hour of 7:40 A. M. by Professor Walter P. Hall, Dodge Professor of
History, in the opening lecture of History 305, his course in English history.
"Something is seriously amiss with Princeton. We have large and larger classes,
while the old precept system is rapidly going on the rocks," declared Hall,
promising that the preceptorials will count more than 50% of the final mark.
"I intend to wipe out the mid-term test in this course," he added. "It is rapidly
becoming an institution. The preceptor feels there is no sense bothering to find
out what the student knows in precept as the mid-term will show him up.
The Sophomore Class decided last night to use psychology, rather than force, to
uphold the dink tradition. After listening to proposals from at least twenty mem-
bers of the Class, the group unanimously adopted a resolution offered by John
Bell '51, which called for the creation of a small committee which would stand at
the doors of of the dining halls and remind the frosh who weren't wearing dinks
that they were breaking a time-honored Princeton tradition. The frosh had
obviously been in Alexander Hall before the meeting started, for there was a heavy
smell of sulphur. A sign saying "To Hell with '51" was placed on the mural behind
the stage, and the blackboard had a similar message.
Coach Charlie Caldwell cut the varsity squad to 44 yesterday, including 20 sopho-
mores. However, with the exception of George Chandler, Caldwell expects little help
from the second year men. However, 51ers Jake McCandless, Bill Prior, Jack
Davidson and Phil Hungerford will see limited service in the backfield. The first
game, against Brown is eight days away.
The campus is plastered with posters proclaiming "Eight for in '48".
Monday, September 27th
Serious questioning of the value of the precept system as well as great enthusiasm
for it was voiced by Princeton faculty members, in connection with Professor Walter
Hall's remarks on the decline of the system.
In its first issue of the fall season, the Princeton Tiger will appear as an
album "in which is reflected as closely as possible the trends of Tiger
humor since the inception of the magazine 66 years ago."
Dr. George Gallup, director of the American Institute of Public Opinion, will be
the guest speaker at the opening of the Daily Princetonian's first competition
tomorrow night.
The Triangle Club will hold an organization meeting tonight at McCarter Theater.
The Princetonian will no longer be distributed free, as of today. Only sub-
scribers will receive future copies.
The dink front was quiet over the weekend. The Princetonian estimated that
"well over" fifty per cent of the frosh were wearing dinks. The president of the
Freshman Council announced that he plans to urge all Freshmen to wear their dinks.
The Class of 1951 is placing posters around the campus giving reasons for wearing
dinks, but plans no further action.
WPRU goes on the air at 5 this afternoon; "Music Street" will be the first program.
The Nassoons will hold tryouts for tenors today at 4:15 in the First Presbyterian
Church. There are no openings at present for basses.
Tuesday, September 28th
Kenneth fairman, Director of Athletics, announced the elimination of all Jayvee
teams except football, crew and wrestling. The move was forced by the largest peace-
time athletic deficit since the Depression. The last pre-war budget was $375,000;
the same size program last year cost more than $500,000, due almost entirely to the
current inflations. About 75 undergraduates will be affected. Both Harvard and Yale
have already dropped Jayvees.
On Thursday night WPRU will broadcast the first of a series of six weekly political
interviews, sponsored by the Liberal Union. Two Republicans, two Democrats and one
Progressive will be interviewed, with the sixth program being a forum in which two
two political commentators will attempt to evaluate the issues in the presidential
campaign.
Zavelle's announces $216 in prizes in its "sensational football contest" in which
prizes of $20, $5, and $2 will be awarded each week for eight weeks. To obtain an
entry one must make a purchase of at least fifty cents.
Wednesday, September 29th
The University Committe on Future Operations reviewed the University's finances Mon-
day and concluded the problem is too complex to make a statement at this time.
University Vice-President George A. Brakeley characterized the situation as
"potentially very serious."
Archibald S. Alexander '28, Democratic candidate for United States senator from New
Jersey, will speak in Princeton on October 27 under the sponsorship of the American
Whig-Cliosophic Society.
Timed to coincide with the opening of the Third Century Campaign, the eighth annual
report of the Princeton University Fund has just been published. The report shows
that 9016 alumni contributed $243,935.83 to the 1947-1948 Annual Giving campaign,
more than five times as much money from twice as many alumni as was the case when
the program was launched in 1940.
Undergraduates will receive within the next two to three weeks a Selective Service
questionnaire, approximately seven pages long, which they must fill out and return to
their local draft boards. Required for the section on education is a letter certifying
that the student attends college. The letter, which must be attached to the question-
naire, may be obtained in 305 Nassau Hall. All NROTC students must take the filled-out
form Commander Fleck in 114 Henry before mailing it to their local board.
Sportswriters foresee a good season for the Tiger football team; the coaching staff
is pessimistic. Coach Caldwell was quoted last week as saying we would score if we
got our hands on the ball, but he didn't see how we were going to do so.
Tryouts for the recently formed Tigertones will be held from 2:30 to 5 in the Music
Room of Murray Dodge.
Thursday, September 30th
Earl Warren, Republican vice-presidential candidate, spoke in Newark last night. He
urged the removal of "a national administration that is not only divided but bitter
an administration so tired that it is losing itself in abuse."
The Pennsylvania Railroad will run a special train from Penn Station to the campus
for the Brown game. It will leave New York at 9:15 and arrive here at 1:15, returning
following the game.
President Dodds left Princeton yesterday for St. Louis to launch the Third Century
Campaign.
Professor Willard Thorpe has resigned as chairman of the American Civilization Program,
believing it important to rotate the chairmanship among the various departments. His
five-year tenure saw the program grow from five to seventy five students. He wil be
succeeded by Stow Persons, assistant professor of history.
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