The New York herald., 1921-11-13
PRINCETON PROCTOR
AIDS REFORM WAVE
Many Practices Overlooked in
Good Old Days Don't
Go Now.
NO MORE DOGS IN ROOMS
Hazing, Music After 10,
Rushes and Noted Flour Pic
turcs' Are Memories Only.
20 MORE DOGS IN ROOMS

Specia, Despatch to TIE New York HERALD.
PRINCETON. Nov. 12.--Is the modern
reform craze sweeping Princeton Uni
versity? Another addition to the staff
oe Proctor Hank Bowie. who already
had one six foot two inch right hand
man for assistance. Is giving cause for
thought to the undergraduates. In ''ye
good old days" the proctor himself was
thought to be perfectly able to with
stand any criminal" tendencies on the
part of the students. All this is changed.
and now the authorities have at least
one of their sleuths on duty at all
hours of the day and night.
Under the new regime the introduce
ton OF dogs into dormitory rooms or
the depositing of soiled clothes upon
closet floors is strictly forbidden, and
"malefactors'' are summoned to account
for the derelictions from the revised
moral CODE Seniors at least can re-
member happy days when the favorite
campus sport was to bring their dogs
not only into dormitory rooms. but even
to their classes. And in the past SER
wants cleaning college rooms considered
themselves fortunate to find the soiled
clothes In so remote a place as the closet
floor.
Time was when anxious mothers could
drop in upon their sons after a hurried
trip to Princeton. All this Is now
changed and mothers are forbidden to
enter dormitory rooms after p M.
as contrary to the morals code, along
with all others of their sex.
Having Also Under BAN.
Many have also taken decided excep-
tion to the acton OF the proctor in
recent instance of mild hazing of fresh
men by sophomores. One ruie laid
down for orderly first year men pro-
yides that all freshmen shall wear
black socks and garters. To see IL any
members of the class of 1925 had dis
regarded this rule the sophomores held
an examination recently outside the
Freshman commons. requiring every one
to turn up his trousers as he left the
hall. removing all garters not of the
prescribed hue. The proctor, greatly
alarmed at the sight of bare legs in the
new Princeton. broke up the meeting
and held some of the chief offenders
for examination and possible punish
ment.
For years students have decorated
their rooms with empty bottles or the
nre-Volstead era. All this is past. how
ever, for raids are being conducted to
remove these vicious influences upon
campus life.
Few realized six months ago that
the playing of musical instruments
= fter ten o'clock would suddenly be-
come Criminal" Nor could 1t have
been predicted that freshmen would be
projected to a degree that would VIZ
lually demolish college traditions which
had come down for many decades and
were sacred to the hearts Of alumni.
Ancient Eggs Are on List.
An insling of the intentions Of the
new regime was received when that
august body. the Senior Council, in full
conclave announced that nothing put
flour and water could be used at the
famed "Flour Pictures" when, in the
st, ancient eggs or overipe tomatoes
had been considered the best OF form.
The warning not being taken with suf-
ficient seriousness by certain gay So
Dhomores, who became sufficiently de-
Generate to hurl carefully collected
vegetables. Proctor Bowie and his staff
seized the offenders and bore them off
TO receive suspension or other penal
ties.
In days of old, rushes were not taboo.
These. however, vanished before the
growing strength of authority. which
deprecated crude instincts OF any kind.
Resigned to this invasion of their ira
ditional amusements, undergraduates
for the last few years have been COM
forted by the thought that they still
could enjoy one riotous evening at the
Cane Spree. They thereby underesti-
mated the increase of morality. For
recently, when the 1921 Cane Spree was
held. Proctor Bowie appeared and an
nounced that the Powers-that-be had
decided to eradicate all traces OF rough
ness In college life.