#princetonquote

“Would that our faculty could see the evils of a grading system in any form, and that we might forever be freed from its harmful influence!”

“This alone of all the great Eastern colleges represented in this city seems to have such hold on the affections of its alumni as to insure the regular observance of the annual reunion.”

“I shouldn’t be arrested for running around nude. They should be paying me.”

"The houses are all warmed underneath by stoves, besides the fireplaces. I really wonder how we have lived at the South. The stores even in town have glass doors and are warmed in that way. The Episcopal Church is kept as warm as possible when you are in there and feels as if you were in a delightful wild Spring day and just step out, the cold freezes your very flesh. The weather is much colder than ours."

 "None of us can foresee the consequence of moves taken and statements made by the President and Mr. Stevenson in the UN. But again I hope we can look to the future without panicking and with the realization that we must be willing to make the sacrifices to stand up for those things in which we believe. We must be calm and await the eventualities."

"It is one of those days when chickens run around the barn-yards with open beaks and distended wings; when shirt-collars have a decidedly despairing look, and when their owners eddy into every room which displays the sign ‘Ice Cream’ or ‘Soda Water with choice Syrups,’ as instinctively as chips or leaves seek out every nook along the brook side. … the temperature was up to the melting point during the continuance of the exercises, and it was not at all to be wondered at that President McLean should have found his silk gown so uncomfortably warm that he slipped it off his shoulders at every convenient opportunity; that fat men should have put on an air strongly suggestive of SIDNEY SMITH’s receipt for keeping cool on a warm Summer’s day,--to take off your flesh and sit in your bones;--nor finally was it at all surprising that young ladies should have found it a great more comfortable to talk to their neighbor than to listen to dry disquisitions from the stage, until President MACLEAN felt called upon to administer them a severe rebuke for their want of attention."

"There was enough work thrown away in the recent game of football between the Yale and Princeton students to cultivate and gather 100 acres of fresh beans. These beans would have supported the vast multitude who wasted a dollar and a day each to see the scrimmage at least six months. They prefer, however, to have football and the weevil."