September, 1949
Monday, September 19
Princeton's 203rd academic year gets underway today with 3,200 undergraduates en-.
rolled. A record-breaking $675,000 of student aid will be distributed this year to
more than 900 students. Scholarship grants account for $400,000 of the total.
Upperclassmen will be given unlimited cuts as the result of a new ruling by Dean
Godolphin. No attendance will be taken in courses numbered 300 or higher.
Each student will be entitled to two tickets in the cheering section for each home
football game. If additional tickets are required, they may be purchased on Friday
at 7 p.m. The cost of the Athletic ticket book has been increased to $25, which
includes tickets for all athletic contests at Princeton for the school year.
Dr. Luigi Crocco, world-renowned expert on jet propulsion and supersonic aerody-
namics, has been appointed to the Faculty as Goddard Professor to supervise the
Guggenheim Jet Propulsion Center.
I Was a Male War Bride, with Ann Sheridan and Cary Grant, is at the Playhouse.
"Nine Straight in '49" is the rallying cry for the upcoming football season. Navy,
Rutgers and Lafayette are included in the schedule.
Varsity crew practice begins tomorrow.
The varsity baseball team clinched first place in the EIL by beating Yale 5-0 at
the Reunion game.
The combined Princeton/Cornell track team defeated the Oxford/Cambridge squad in
June by a 9-4 score. Carleton Jacob took first in the pole vault at 13 feet.
The varsity rowers finished fifth in the Poughkeepsie Regatta last June.
The 150 crew took the Thames Challenge Cup for the second straight year. Broadus
Bailey and Chip Fawcett were in the boat.
Tryouts for the University Chapel Choir will be held the next three days. There will
be an organizational meeting tonight at 7:30.
The Triangle Club will hold its organization meeting tomorrow night at 7:30.
Tuesday, September 20
Notice from the Undergraduate Interclub Committee: All Junior and Senior non-club
members who desire to enter the Fall bicker must sign up at 305 Nassau Hall before
Wednesday noon, if they failed to do so during registration.
Last night 22 Freshmen were apprehended by the proctors as seven different groups
sought possession of the third clapper of the season. "We had to check up every few
minutes for almost four hours," one proctor said. "They were under desks and behind
safes, swarming all over nearly every office in Nassau Hall. We collected enough
tools to start a hardware store. But they didn't get a single clapper."
Taking advantage of the first complete shutdown of the college in 12 years,
University workmen gave a new look to Dod Hall court, the tennis courts south of
the gym and all dormitory rooms on campus. The drive in front of Dod has been re-
placed by a newly seeded lawn.
The U-Store has installed a Western Union Telefax, the first such installation on
any college campus.
Undergraduates no longer need to make up courses which they fail, but instead must
maintain a general average for all of their courses. A freshman whose average for
the first term is below 5.3 or whose average for the year is below 5.0 will be re-
quired to withdraw. A sophomore whose combined average for 3 terms is below 4.7
or whose combined average for his first two years is below 4.3 will be required to
withdraw.
The attendance requirements for freshmen and sophomores remains as before; no more
than 3 cuts per course or 12 for all courses per term. Violation of this rule will
result in a warning to the student and notification to his parents that he has been
seriously irregular in his attendance and is subject to probation or dismissal if
he continues to absent himself from his classes.
The varsity soccer team will hold its first scrimmage today.
Wednesday, September 21
Students have until October 1 to pick up bicycles picked up during the summer.
Under the new football ticket plan allowing each student two cheering section
seats, juniors will sit in the top of section 3 and bottom of section 4.
Open House for the Fall Bicker Week will be held on Wednesday, September 28, from
7:30 to 10:00. Bids will be issued the following night beginning at 7 with the same
bicker rules as were in effect last spring. Bids must be turned in at room 305 in
Nassau Hall by noon on Saturday, October 1.
No progress has been made in developing an extracurricular marriage course.
The Undergraduate Interclub Committee has designated the Lafayette weekend as one
of the two closed weekends required by Nassau Hall. If there are to be any parties
on the Yale weekend, at least seven clubs must agree to hold dances with orchestras
or open their dormitories to girls. To date, six clubs have been refused permission
by their graduate boards, five clubs have received permission and the remaining six
have not made a decision.
The Tigertones will hold their organizational meeting tonight at 9 in the Senior
Room of the Nassau Tavern.
Princeton undergraduates will be happy to learn that the Philadelphia police have
been de-horsed. They will now ride motorcycles.
The Campus has been flooded by bogus magazine salesmen selling subscriptions to
magazines that will never be delivered.
Dean Godolphin is not going to swing a big stick this year in regard to the use of
alcoholic beverages on campus. However, he points out that the first regulation of
the University states "All students are expected to conduct themselves in a manner
becoming scholars and gentlemen."
With today's issue the Daily Princetonian launches a weekly column titled
"The Gadfly', written by Roy Herbert.
The six foreign students sponsored by the Undergraduate Council are now enrolled.
Peter Spruance was elected national vice president of the Students for Democratic
Action at the group's June convention. Spruance and Robert Rafner were two of
Princeton's three delegates to the convention.
Rutgers has been selected as the site of the National Football Hall of Fame.
The 1915 Dorm should be ready for occupancy at the start of the Spring Term.
All scores, names and drawings which adorned the third floor hall of Nassau Hall
were painted over during the summer.
Nassau Airpark is offering half-hour flying lessons for $5.
Thursday, September 22
The new dome of the Observatory is brilliant orange.
Worth Rock, president of the Princeton Print Club, announced that its annual lend-
ing of prints will take place this afternoon at 1:30. The prints are loaned to
students for one term to brighten their rooms.
Over 400 candidates for the 1949-50 Glee Club met in Alexander Hall last night.
WPRU's fall competition begins tonight at 8 in McCosh 10. The station will broad-
cast the Philadelpia Eagle football games this fall. Previously limited to the cam-
pus WPRU will send its broadcasts into the town as well.
The Daily Princetonian will begin its fall competition next Tuesday night.
The following is reprinted from a copy of the Smith College Scan:
"We've done a lot of talking about the "typical" product of our brother colleges.
Next on the agenda is the Princeton man, resident of the ivy-covered, collegiate
Gothic halls of the university situated and saturated in New Jersee.
The son of Nassau is often the scion of an FFS (First Family of the South) and as
such is addicted to traditions like the Maryland Hunt Cup and the Derby. He is in-
tensely loyal to the old college and grows up to don a tiger suit and frolic with
abandon at June reunions. He may be classed under two headings--the aesthete and
the athlete. Aesthetes major in art or melodrama and indulge in deathless prose and
surrealistic games; athletes major in Econ. and wallow in Public Finance, Corporat-
ion Finance, and Personal Finance.
The recipe for success and acceptability at Princeton lies in the possession of
white buck shoes. They are a symbol without which the undergraduate cannot
be "bickered" into one of the upperclass eating clubs. These clubs are on Prospect
Street, out of the range of the proctors. They are the institutions most frequented
by visiting firewomen. They specialize in libraries which are seldom used for read-
ing, moose-studded walls, and strange names.
The average Princeton man is long on parties (good ones, at that), and short on
social conscience. In short, he is not an extra-curricular eager beaver. He likes
to sing and to shout "Go, Tiger!" louder than his neighbor.
In spite of all this, or perhaps because of it, we are devoted to the lair of the
tiger. Even if it means an eight hour jaunt and a jolt in the P.J. and B., we'll
keep going back and back and back to Old Nassau."
Once More, My Darling, with Robert Montgomery and Ann Blythe, is at the
Playhouse.
Undergraduates are now able to get passes to the football team's Monday and Tues-
day practices.
Friday, September 23
The Yale and Lafayette football weekends have been officially designated as re-
stricted. For the Lafayette game the clubs will be allowed to have open bars from
5 to 7 p.m. For the Yale game bars may be open until 1 a.m., and if chaperones are
present, girls may be in the clubs until that hour. Since orchestras are banned on
the Yale weekend several clubs plan victrola dances. The three non-restricted week-
ends (not including Dartmouth) have been apportioned among the clubs. Those week-
ends are Penn, Brown and Rutgers. Each club may have orchestras and open dorms on
two of those three weekends, plus the Dartmouth weekend.
Rhode Scholarship applications must be filed by October 3rd.
The Student Travel Agency is offering trips to the Harvard and Cornell games at
a cost of $24.60 and $27 respectively. The fare includes a bus from the campus to
the Newark Airport, a plane to the airport nearest the game, and a round-trip bus
ride from the airport to the stadium and back to the airport.
The first football pep rally of the season will be held tonight. A torchlight
parade will assemble at Alexander Hall and wend its way through the campus to the
steps of Blair Arch.
The Undergraduate Council last night voted to require compulsory registration of
student bicycles.
The "Prince" pre-competition beer party has been shifted to Wednesday night.
The "Prince"-Tiger dance will be Friday, November 11, the night before the
Yale football game.
No longer will freshmen be required to defend the wooden goal posts in Palmer Stad-
ium. New steel goal posts were installed after the last game of 1948.
George Montgomery will brave the treacherous currents of Lake Carnegie in a
courageous attempt to swim from shore to shore on Saturday.
Saturday, September 24
The Princeton football season begins today against the Lafayette Leopards, with
Lafayette seeking its first win over the Tiger since 1909. Five thousand under-
privileged children will attend the game under the auspices of the Princeton YMCA,
the Princeton University Athletic Department and the Orange Key.
The St. Louis Club held its first meeting of the year Thursday night. There are 85
undergraduates from the St. Louis area.
A welder's spark started two fires in the new Observatory dome, bringing six fire
engines and two police cars. Damage was minor.
Monday, September 26
Tragedy struck at the end of Saturday's football game when Professor Frank Graham
fell to his death from the east tower of Palmer Stadium. A memorial service will be
held at the University Chapel at 2:30 today.
Princeton defeated Lafayette 26-14 in Saturday's opening football game.
Wednesday, September 28, at 5 p.m., is the deadline for course changes.
Saturday night the Mather Sundial was painted with a bright orange "53".
Madame Bovary, starring Jenifer Jones and Van Heflin, is at the Playhouse.
Crash Dive, with Tyrone Power and Anne Baxter, is at the Garden.
The Princeton Bridge Club will hold its first master point tournament tonight at
7:15 in the Music Room of Murray-Dodge.
The Knitting Shop will knit to order black and orange argyles and sweaters. The
cost is from $7.50 up.
George Montgomery failed in his attempt to swim Lake Carnegie Saturday.
Tuesday, September 27
The Fall Bicker period will begin tomorrow night when Open House will be held on
Prospect Street from 7:30 to 10:00. One hundred thirty six eligibles are expected.
The Undergraduate Council is sponsoring dances after every home football game ex-
cept the Brown game. The dances will be held in the gym, with the music supplied
by Hank Durell. Tickets will be $2.40 per couple.
The University Press Club will hold an organizational meeting tonight at 7:30.
The Classes of 1952 and 1953 have been fighting sporadically since Saturday, when
the Freshmen kidnapped Sophomore president Poss Parham. Last night 4 Freshmen
were taken to the Infirmary by ambulance as the result of fighting on Blair Arch
steps. None of the injuries were life-threatening.
Whig-Clio's Speaker's Bureau will hold an organizational meeting tonight at 8.
The Mountaineering Club, which received its charter last year, is now active.
Sarah Churchill visited the Campus this past summer, especially to see the cannon
behind Nassau Hall. Her great-grandfather, Class of 1840, was responsible for
bringing the cannon to the Campus.
Wednesday, September 28
Open House for the Fall Bicker is tonight. Men receiving bids may begin eating in
their clubs October 3.
In an effort to end the war between '52 and '53, Dean Godolphin addressed seven
separate sittings of dinner at Commons last night. He called for an end to the
fighting and mutual respect between the Classes.
Philip Zabriskie left for San Francisco yesterday to preside at the meetings of the
Youth Division of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church.
The International Association will hold its first meeting of the 1949-50 academic
year tomorrow night at 7:30 in Murray-Dodge. It was founded to assist foreign stu-
dents in adjusting to American life. Alexander Trowbridge is vice-president and
Robert Edsall is secretary-treasurer.
Yesterday Saks Fifth Avenue's Campus Shop on Nassau Street gave away 100 glass mugs
emblazoned with the Princeton University seal.
Thursday, September 29
The goal for the Campus Fund Drive has been set at $22,500 according to Fund chair-
Alexander Trowbridge. Door-to-door solicitation will be conducted from October 25
to October 27.
Harold Stassen, now in his first year as president of the University of
Pennsylvania, received an editorial spanking yesterday in the Daily
Pennsylvanian, Penn's undergraduate newspaper. The attack on Stassen concerned
what the paper described as three vacation "jaunts" lasting over three months,
which he has taken recently.
Three Yale seniors, including one football player, have been stricken with polio,
causing cancellation of the Yale-Fordham football game this Saturday.
Clubs will issue card bids to eligibles tonight. In order to be binding on clubs
cards must be turned in to 305 Nassau Hall by 5 on Monday, October 3.
Tickets for the special Pennsylvania Railroad train to the Navy game in Baltimore
are on sale at the Athletic Office today. Round trip tickets are $5.
The Home Preceptorial series of the Student Christian Association will get under
way tonight with a short organizational meeting. The precepts are called "Home
Precepts" because they take place in the homes of the professors who have agreed to
sponsor them.
The Sword in the Desert, with Dana Andrews, Marta Toren and Stephen McNally,
is at the Playhouse.
The first round matches in the club and dorm tennis tournaments must be finished by
tomorrow afternoon. Second round matches must be completed by Friday, October 7.
Friday, September 30
(There is no archival copy of the first page of today's "Prince".)
South Pacific is setting box-office records on Broadway.
Kenneth Fairman, Princeton athletic director, denies there is a three-way plot by the
Ivy League, the Big Ten and the Pacific Coast Conference to boycott the major
money-hungry football teams of the South.
Vernon Wise has been promoted to business manager of WPRU. He will be assisted by
Homer Franklin. Langthorne Sykes has been named associate staff techinician.
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