The New York herald., 1921-07-03
PRINCETON MOURNS
Loss OF REyNICK'S.
Gathering Place OF Upper
Classmen Gives Way to
Modern Restaurant.
DUu DTNNC ADJ COIN
BUILDINGS ARE SOLD
Old Eating Place, Long
Barred to Freshmen,
Now a Tradition.
SERVED LATE BREAKFAST
Had Affectionate Place in the
Memory of Graduates for
Many Years.

Special Despatch to THE Nrw YORK HERALD.
PRINCETON. July 2.--When Prince
ton undergraduates flock back to Old
Nassau this September they will find
missing one of the Oldest and most
cherished institutions OF Princeton
with the passing of Renwick's.
For more than twenty years the
restaurant which has been forbidden
to freshmen and which was the haven
of upper classnlen has had large
place in Princeton life. Old grads"
when they return rush to Renwick's
to renew some of the old memories.
Every novel which has been written
about Princeton for years, including
the latest. This Side of Paradise" has
mentioned the gathering place of
Princeton students.
Modern Restaurant.
The sad news that Renwick's is to be
no more came in an announcement that
three buildings on Nassau street the
centre one being the location of the
restaurant. have been purchased and
will be made over into a modern res
taurant by Paul Whitcomb and Swift
Tarbell, 06 OF New York, in connection
with similar chain throughout the
country Princeton will be the gamer
by reason of the establishment of an
ZIP to date eating place. but this will
never take the place of Renwick's.
It is In this store that scores Of
undergraduates who have risen too late
to breakfast at their clubs or the uni
versity commons may be seen any morn
Ing of the college year hastily making
away with the traditional buns and cof-
fee. and rushing away to the. next class
The history of Renwick's is lost in
the haze Of tradition. Not even the
oldest inhn nbitent recalls its institution.
Renwick himself. who, according to
tradition. was first steward at one Of
the upper class clubs. took over the
business some twenty-three years ago
and its popularity has been steadily
increa sing ever since. Soon the confec-
tionery shop became so crowded that
freshmen were not permitted to enter
the only other place in Princeton OF
which this was true being the basement
of the Nassau I'm, now dead.
Not orlv Us Ro-wicl<'s the chief srot
Of interest for the late Breakfast for
sleery students. b't II Is also thronged
In the afterr oons and In the evenings
after the movies" There came foot
hall ard other coaches to talk over the
problems OF the next game or meet with
the ca~ta'ns OF their teams. There con-
gre~ate the "big men" OF the college to
"bicker" over the latest college dope"
And what will make all Princeton men
mourn is that all this Is rore forever
Gone will be the old irformality and coll
lege atrnosMhere before the onrush of
the modern spirit.
Traditions Are Passing.
Residents of the town and college pro-
fessors, who are graduates Of Princeton,
point to the passing of Renwicks as only
one more of a similar series Of traditions
which they think are rapidly dying and
which once contributed so much of the
Princeton atmosphere. Horsing was
abolished, as were rushes. before the life
OF the present undergraduate generation.
The old Circus Maxin1us, where once
sophomores were wont to assemble with
their tall horsing hats, leading the more
rebellicus OF the freshmen behind them.
for an evenings work In inculcating the
proper spirit, Is now departed in favor
Of the new railroad yards. Prohibition
has tended to lessen greatly the fame
OF the Nassau Inn or the familiar Mass"
OF undergraduate speech, another great
spot for the upper classmen to meet
The loafing benches on Nassau street
cnce the seats OF the mighty" were
abolished a few years ago. as the town
Of Princeton became a little larger and
more modern.
1t has not yet been decided what the
new restaurant will be called when coll
lege again opens, and not until then will
the new senior council, as representa-
tives Of undergraduate sentiment. have
the opportunity TO decide what the new
freshman regulation will be. Freshmen
may. perhaps. be excluded from the new
place, as they were from Renwick's and
all its past glory may become a tradi-
tion of the past to be recalled in after
years.