The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-15
Stanley A. Hunter Author Of
Prize Essay on Intimate I'm
dergraduate Associations.

The Orange prize essay at Princeton
this year was written by Stanley A.
Hunter, 10. of Orange. 1t has just
been published in the Princeton Alumni
Weekly, and reads, in part, as follows;
There are some educational features
that distinguish Princeton from sister
institutions. The recently introduced
preceptorial system has quickened her
Intellectual life and done much to COM
bine the advantages of the large I'M
versity and the small college. The re-
modelled curriculum based on the bali
anced elective system has strengthened
and stimulated mental development
and discipline. Her honor system in
examinations has invigorated the moral
ideals of the institution and furnished
an example of which all her graduates
are Justly proud. There is a history
back of her that makes the hearts of
her sons beat faster when they realize
how she has always been dominated by
the love of country and of truth.
While recognizing the intellectual
claim as paramount, Princeton does not
lose sight of the material needs of. her
men. The new dining-halls system
(commons) where $50 men are fed amid
pleasant Surroundings under student
management. tends Strongly to that de-
mocracy which students and faculty
alike are aiming to preserve. Situated
in a small town, Princeton has had to
develop her own system of living. Dor
mitory life has been coincident with
her growth. Whatever the elements
that make her student life different and
distinct from that of any other Ameri-
can university, the part played by the
dormitories has been the greatest fac
tor in giving that life a unique and
almost indefnable charm.
secrettof Princeton Sentiment. sd.
IF you ask for the secret of thai
strong Princeton sentiment which hei
alumni are carrying all over the land
writes a graduate, sit is herein the
dormitories, through the long winter
evenings, where lifelong friendships are
formed; under the stately elms, whers
in the long spring twilight the little
groups cement those friendships annie
| chatter and song"
1t is through the concentration of thu
men on the campus that those close as
sociations are cemented which. MAKE
four years of Princeton life a treasured
memory for all who have lived within
her walls. Nine hundred students ar
now living practically within shouting
| distance of one another. In nearl,
everyone of the thirteen dormitorie'
there are in addition one or two pre-
lsceptors living-a strange innovation t
some who may believe this to mark al
intrusion on the rights and persona
liberties of the students. But these ar
young men of the right sort, whom tn,
students enjoy visiting occasionally an,
from whom they borrow matches witt
as much frequency as they would from
any other neighbor.
The freshmen. with the exception o
sixty men on the campus, live on tw'
streets contiguous to the western AM
eastern boundaries, in rooming-house
whose capacity Is or the average tel
men. but all freshmen look forward t
.their admission on the campus to dor
mitory life. as the day of their enamel
patton.
J The munincent gift of Mrs. Russell