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New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
At Princeton Things Nowadays Are Different
Somehow, but the Old Spirit (Sngular,
Printer Calls the Sons of Old
Nassau to ReneW Their Youth
By HARVEY II. SMITH

"vHERE is universal human trait Of
constantly amenting the fact that
n times are not what they used to be.
Ask survivor Of the old regular army
about the army of to-day; ask business man
about his business farmer the condition Of
his crops, a golfer how he's hitting them, a
politician about politics-ask any one anything
which contrasts the present with the past and
they'll all unite and shout
Things amt what they used to be-
Princeton graduates are no exception In
fact, they're the loudest shouters of the bunch
when 1t comes to anything connected with the
university An undergraduate may believe
that this year crew, football, baseball and
debating teams professors, petting parties
Princetonlan board, lecturers, customs, proms,
club members, freshman class, double chocolate
marshmallow jlggers, the proctor, senior sing
1ng chaperones, Phi Beta Kappa elections,
styles IN golf hose the deans disposition, the
verdure OF the foliage, the service on the Penn
sylvanla Railroad, the quality of the food
served at Commons, the credit extended by the
local merchants and the paving on Nassau
Street are the best ever. He NAV be thorough
" convinced Of all and each of these things
and willing to back his beliefs with his dads
last Liberty bond, but give him just fifteen
minutes with couple of old grads and they'll
have him so certain the old college has gone
completely to the bow-wows that he'll consider
1t his bounden duty to pack up his duds and go
back home to the farm
And 1T was ever thus, even in the davs
when Princeton was the College of New Jer
sey, situated in Eliza abethtown, and the grads
went back to reunion armed with muskets and
powder horns. During the interim of taking
pot shots at lurking redskins the Oldest among
them doubtless recalled the good old davs.
And now we who have been out of college hnt
hVe years tell the present generation of the
glorious days when we were students. and we
IN turn are sllenced by tales of the golden
9os. And surely the students of the golden
9Os' had to listen to stories of the "diamond
'os' and the "radium CO. Should we at
tempt to tell an undergraduate that Don
Lourle plays football like schoolbov COM
pared to Blll Moore some grad who went to
college when more thought was devoted to
Greek and Latin than to petting proclivities
IS sure to pipe up and tell US that any one who
never saw Johnny Poe skirt an end or Big
Bill' Edwards buck line doesn't know what
real football is.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
The Advantage Possessed
BY the Oldest Grad

Consequently, ! look forward some dav in
the far distant future to being princeton,s
oldost living graduate, not for the honor of
the longevity, but because there will be no
one to say:
Pshaw, Smith, when l was in college,
speaking specifically of reunions the Grads
have probably always proclaimed that thew
were not what they used to be, but since the
enforcement of prohibition their wailinps have
had added sincerity, and have been received
wi'h increasing credulity, for, the critics of
Scott Fitzgerald to the contrary notwithstand
ing, beer was most instrumental in making
reunions successful,
lhere was time when The president of any
number of breweries facing a deficit could 90
before his board of directors about this time Of
the year and say with smile:
"RenemhSr, gentlemen, there is still the
Princeton reanion"
But no longer is this true. Occasionally a
class secretary will announce to his classmates
that ne has effected coup de grace, that the
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
The Man Whose Memory
Works Too Well

It's the same way with the subject of those
parties at the Lawn Club, which some thought
less bachelor classmate mentions to you and
your wife as subject for reminiscence. You
used to be the champion fusser of the class in
those days, he opines. He'll never forget the
time you and ne went to call for those girls
to take them to the club dance, and he hap
pened to look in the mirror in the room where
you were helping your girl on with her cloak
and-ha! ha! ha!-he saw you kiss her. Did
you know she still was living here in town?
Had you been out to see her? Of course not,
You had other plans That girl probably had
forgotten all about you. AS for you, she'd gone
completely out of your head until he happened
to mention her. That's why you never had
spoken of her to your wife
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

Bones society he's in. Come on, John dear,
fess up
Fifth Wife (convivially)-U with your
cups and glasses, boys and girls and let's ali
join in singing that old college favorite,
Heres to Dear Old Yale, Down the Field,
Down the Field
And so on, with horrible time being had
by all. 1t will be agreed that few measures
can be too radical, looking toward the elimina
ton of such untoward Incidents.
The Unfortunate Graduate with Wife may
arrive and register at the university Satur-
day, June IT, He may, but there is no reason
why ne cannot stall off until Sunday, when
occur the following events to which he may
safely send the wife and count on her being
pretty well tied up all day.
II 100 A. M.-Baccaaureate address bv the
president
500 p. Morgan recital
500 =. M.-Twentieth anniversary meeting
of "Yale in China" with addresses
For Monday, June 10. the following should
hold her: 10:30 p. m., meeting of the Alumni
Advisory Board; 1890 p. n annual luncheon
of the Yale Law School Alumni Association:
| p. ln., luncheon of the Yale Corporation and
Of tho Alumni Advisory Board; 215 y. m..
meeting Of the Yale Corporation; A D. m
class DAY exercises; 1890 p. m., promenade
of the senior class. At this last some senior
who wants job in the office of the U. G. W.
W. unfortunate Graduate With Wife, may
be induced to promenade with the wife.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
What Can He Sec IN Her?
That's The Question

is this the first time you have been to New
Haven?"
Yes, and | wasn't sure | could come this
time | hesltated about leaving my baby"
"Oh, have you baby? | have two!"
This tack is good for half an hour, but af fter
that time the wives leave each other to look
for their husbands, eacn wife wondering what
the others husband sees in her
But If the inevitable is faced and the mixed
reunion is accepted, such conversation as the
following may be expected around the table,
laden with near-beer and tea
First Wife Ito husbands roonnatol-So
You we're Freddys roommate in col)oco Pm
his little roommate now (Busincss of snookav-
ookums)
Second Wife (to husband )-Wll. whv don't
you reminlsce with the boys Remind them Of
tnat time you dashed down the football field,
shaking off the mean tacklers and MAKING a
'ouchdoWn, alone and unaided for old Yale.
Third Wife (to her husband)-Apd Won
Rob, must recall for them the time Won won
your Phi Beta Kappa key and put to shame
all the mentally lazy big fellows with inst
"Y's" '''
Fourth Wife Ito alD-Nows the time for
John to tell us about that funny Skulls and
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

AATH HEM White House dinners that the
President dishes up for the main
@- push in the steel business must he
worth eatin',' said Marty Nc
Mahon, the retired bartender. "Lotsa fellas
has talked to that mob before an said. WHY
dontcha lay off the twelve-hour shift?' an oot
nothln' but steey glare.
Some O them has kept after them, at that
an pestered EN- SO that they brought out
lotta figures to show they'd gone into the whole
business an you couldn't make steel without
you worked your nen--or a good part of ZEN,
twelve hours a day.
"1f it was a preacher or somebody else +bat
they figured was worth slippin' the oil to thev
might talk real sympathetic about the twelve
hour shift an say they aimed to get rid of it
just as quick as they could an had been irwin
to fer years, but it just couldn't be done.
"Ihen the President invites EN- all to tho
White House an says he don't mean no harm
an he don't want to butt in on another fella's
lay, but what about this twelve-hour shift in
the steel mills, an they all look at him kind of
admrln an say that's fine idea an thev1
look into it right away
Now, they mighta just been slippn' him
superior brand Of oil; you can't alwavs ten
about them boys. They're pretty slick whe,
they lay themselves out to be. Or thew ripbta
been full O green turtle soup an thought iust
at the minute that it was prand idea an, tbe,
changed their minds the next mornin'
VI they mlghta looked around the table an
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

Somebody returned the cue, but nothing
happened. Great heavens The man was in
carneSt
-pandemonium. When he could make
himself heard our classmate increased the
tumult by demanding neatedly:
Il wouldn't have wife couldn't take to
reunion?"
Neither would we, we rebutted, and sought
refuge in the classics by quoting somebody in
"Hanlet' who said that somebody else swore
he could summon spirits from the vastly deep,
and so could |. But would they Gomez" We
could all, we pointed out, go through the for
maity of inviting our wives to accompany us
to the reunion, but would they come? Not if
we knew it.
The luncheon broke up in a frutless discus
sion and schism, and there the matter most
unsatisfactory rests.
We suspect that it was brand-new wife
that caused this damage, as they are the most
dangerous element operating against the old
1ale TRADITION, unless it be class babies.
against whom we previously had warned
Inc class baby is the first male heir born to
any member of the class who has graduated
Ihls infant, clad in the uniform of his fathers
class, is brought to the trienna reunion and
placed at the head of the column of grads
marching to the baseball game. The offspring
is permitted to hurl the baseball into plav on
the diamond. This custom is not pernicious
IN itself except that for the rest of the year
the child, puffed up with his moment of glory.
Will be hurling things at all the brc-a -brac in
the home.
But by reason of numerical superiority alone
wives are entitled to more serious considera-
ton as reunion threats than Children The
eVentuallty must be faced that some of them
VIII be among those present at New Haven
TINS June How, then, to cope with them after
they have gained foothold? There's the rub
That spirit of carefree cameradcrie. born of
the precious association of college davs that
links their husbands, naturally is not possible
to them.
" Member that time" one grad greets an
other, you insisted on sleeping in the arms of
Hanc Statuam, and you wouldn't leave till
Bll and carried you back to Van?"
Yes, the grad remembers, but his wife wants
explanations. 1t must be carefully and la
borlously diagrammed for her that Hanc
Statuam is an iron statue of somebody or other
on the campus, and in indulging in such fa
mlliarty with it you only were following a
quaint custom which is senior privilege at
New Haven. And even at that it never is
quite clear to her why her husband was car
red and why he was put in van.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
/ he Secret of Yole's
,joid OF It's Grads

But that only emphasizes the point that
these pilgrimages still are enthusiastically
made. And no alma mater beckons more at
tractiyely to her sons than does Yale. The
secret of this supremacy need no longer pe
withheld Now it can be told-must be told
ere it is lost. 1t is this: 1t is, or rather has
teen, q tradition that a Yale man does not
bring his wife to a reunion.
The secret has been we'll kept although it
has been as an open book. The very diplomas
gwen out each year have revealed it, Those
documents are inscribed with the graduates
name, which is plain enough, and the word
"Yalensis,' which is Latin for yale" They
then 20 ON to admi, in that dead tongue that
the recipient is Bachelor of Arts. Nobody
ever reads any further. If any one did
he would know what the arts are They begin
with the art Of reading Latin and end with
qualifying the graduate for an art which ho
cnly may begin to practice when he no longer
is bachelor.
And that is--the art of leaving his wife
home when he attends a college reunion. For
years, for centuries, it has been successfully
practiced at Yale.
1t is paradox that June, the month of mat
rimonlal unions, should also be the month Of
college reunions, but it is state of affairs that
need be of no inconvenience, save to the fool
hardy gentleman who attempts to take both
loops in the same June A much more pro-
nounced paradox is the business of taking
spouse, having acquired one, to ones reunion
the following year. That is what must have
been meant by old Noah Webster, Yale rs
class of 1778-when in his widely read diction-
ary he defined paradox as "A sentiment
seemingly contradictory or opposed to COM
mon sense, but that yet may be true in fact"
Just the other day in as public forum as
class luncheon classnate for whom we enter
tanned respect as a soldier and jurist inquired
in his best commanding and court voice:
Who's going to take his wife to our re-
union this year,"
A sudden, shocked silence descended on the
table. fork, Gathering to a plate, broke the
tension. Features relaxed in relieved smiles
That question must be only rhetorical Or it
was but a jest. Our classmate was only
waiting for some one to answer his cue and
ask, Who, indeed?" and then he would fash
nut with: "Well, isn't this our serennal?"
Thereupon the gathering would dissolve in
oursts of innocent merriment.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

And let the soft pedal be placed upon the
Joyous recalling Of that ambitious attempt to
drink beer in every saloon in New Haven.
How many saloons were there? You cant re-
member; that was quite some time ago. Your
wife thinks it was very silly trick, anyway.
You could have looked the saloons up in a
classified telephone directory. OF course
that's the way you'd 90 it if you were making
any such census to-day
No. the old college memories had best stay
buried IN the presence of wives. The only al
ternatve seems to be the isolation of wives,
and even after such difficult matter has been
effected, 1T is apt to fail mjscrably. Only too
often wives of classmates will not reune for a
darn The conversation is bound to worry
along somewhat after this fashion:
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
Train Schedules ProUide
A Glorious Opportunity

The polls are open for the election Of two
members of the corporation on Tuesday, June
20. The u. G. w. w. may send the wife to
the polls with fraudulent proxy, which may
cause her apprehension and jaing until Fri
day, June %, the day Of the boat races
AT that date the U. G. W. w. may explain
to the wife that one always watches the boat
races from observation train, on board
which he will at once place her, promising to
join her later. If he uses little fnesse the
train he puts her on may be the train for
home.
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
Prohibition Was TO SPELL
The Reunions Doom,

1t was said that prohibition would speD,&
unions doom, but they still continue each wsr
and the thousands Of grads continue to cone
back, and probably have Just as good times
they ever did. but in a different wav. EslJ
on FRIDAY preceding the baseball game Wit
ale they arrive, old grads and young grads
and as soon as they set foot on the campus the
cares OF business and the worries of domestic
lty are forgotten. For three glorious days they
are boys again. reyelling in their regainea
youth. Cars Of business, regular tyrants 10
their offices and dgnfed members of the bs,
carry on like kids at circus. 1t takes The
younger grads longer TO lose their dignity, b.
once lost they are as carefree as their elders
Each of the younger classes has dstlnc
tive costume, the older classes contenting them
selves with buttons and hat bands The young
est class always wears sailor suits and the
others attempt 10 get something which is orig
NAL. ornamental and practical. The choice Il
up to the reunion committees, and they al
constantly between the devil and the deep SCI
One man writes: Whatever you do, don't na"
other man writes that last years costume va
the best ever, BE sure TO have one like II @s
year" And so II goes, the poor committees =
ting it both ways.
Have you any suggestions'' the cOmni""
asks early in the spring.
"Yes-have plenty Of beer Cut out 'ns
beer" No more entertainment ike last y'
More entertainment like last year. "A s'''
class dinner" mo class dlEaer.- "o''-
while speeches." I'VE don't come back to llssp
to speeches.
The committee worries along somen0"
other and provides something in the way
costumes, refreshments and enIertslAne-
which is regarded with approval by ohe'',a '.,..
OF the class, with indifference by ano'hei 'A
and with outspoken condemnation by Tue
mainder.
Upon the class secretary however IAN
task of seeing that every one is PROVIDES
welcomed and made T. feel at ease. 1he's
actually men who dread returning 10 ieu|
fearing that they will not be ren'ei'N
They feel hurt il no one comes up anu
them the glad hand. So it falls to 'he - ~
tary to act as official host fer the class
men who were big in college tax MS hsI x
not at all. He knows them all by tnss
names, but the men who hid their ilgaS N
in the covers of Euclid or in the casD'
"lab" often fail to register with hlm ss Ss
finds himself unable to pull an Aadls0a
He cannot say: q
"Of course, / remember you perteeh
are Long John Parker, the man VINO ~,
Herodotus and won the AXe NeVih
prize. How's the family" ..sfI
No; it takes a super secretary TO fe'"
the names of every man in his class snS =
ciate them with the physiognomles whM' Il
front him at reunion, so like as not NV
meaning fellow is apt to remark: ..s|
Hello old man; | don't recall sou'
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

class will have real beer a reunion, but q
the whole the breweres now have to 20 4
alone. The foaming cup has given vsy t.
cases Of Clicquot Club, and perhaps it is tr
the better. The present reunions are like ts
present Fourth of Julys. Every one had bss
ter time when there We're frecrackers and ils
works, but there was always the following su
Of reckoning
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
An Old Yale Tradition NoW Is Imperiled as
Wives of Grads, Accompanied by an
AUuIunche OF Glass and Near-CLass
Babies, Plan to Filter in
By FAIRFAX DGWNEY

U%FOSE days approach when we who
4 have sat in the seats Of learning at
L Yale University or have been there for
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
Marty on White House Dinners
BY ROBERT B. PECK

hA"N HEM White House dinners that the
President dishes up for the main
-A&- push in the stee! business must be
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

laIG university or nave Uecl tHeIe lol
time as "preferential standees,' as
they say on the subway feel the STRINGS Of
an impulse to return to New Haven. Doubtless
others are animated by promptings toward col
legc reunions, while even Harvard men are
dragged by some inexpcable fascination back
to the scene of crime In fact the migratory
urge toward collegiate pilgrmages may be said
to tc almost universal.
According to Dan Chaucer, whose old Eng
In we learned at Yale to make good as
uev., It was in the month Of April with "hs
shoures sote' that folks liked to 60 on pilgrim
ages. apparently, after several pilgrimages
had been called on account of rain-because of
those very showers sung by the poet-the pref
e1cnce shifted to June, which, people expected
~auld be dryer. Their expectations have been
ulJ.e thln realized.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-15
MICHIGAN FARM LAND
VALUES SHOW LOSSES

LANSING Mich, March IA
The value OF farm lands In Michi-
gan decreased last year for the first
thine since land Values statistics
have been collected by the state
and the federal department OF agri-
culture. according 70 a report issued
oy the joint crop reporting bureau
Monday.
The value of improved lands de-
creased from s91 an acre. A year
ago. to Ss7. at present. according
TO a report. The value OF plowlands
dropped from SOS an acre TO $50.
These declines are described as
more or less nominal. because only
a small amount Of land has changed
hands at the reduced prices, and
temporary. because indications are
that the values lost in the past
year will soon be regained.
The report points out that Michi-
gan is an importing rather than an
exporting state so far as agricul-
tural products are concerned. Ow-
ing 10 faulty marketing conditions
and transportation, much produce
is shipped out of the state. the re-
port says. but an equal amount 1s
brought in from other states.
Michigan values have decreased
less than values in other states. IL
is pointed out, because the emigra-
ton from the farms TO the cities
was so rapid as to prevent any de-
cided rise in farm Prices during
the period of national imitation. The
tendency back TO the farm Is now
serving in a like way TO prevent ex-
traCrdinary reduction in farm values
due 10 low prices of farm products
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-15
COMPANY
FOR BAD PAVEMENT
$1,000 Deducted From Settle
ment for Inferior Lake
County Job.

INDIANAPOLIS March IA. -
More than $4,000 was deducted from
the final settlement. of the Federal
Paving Co. which built approximate
~ il miles Of road in Lake county
from Dyer TO Deep river, the state
highway commission announced
Tuesday. The deduction was made,
"a statement by the commission said,
because the coacrete used by the
contractor did not meet with the
thickness required by the commits
sion.
The cOmmiss on's statement said
that the committee rejected lbs
feet Of this road because it was in
feTior."
The statement read:
THE commission refused 20 settle
with the contractor for this inferior
mileage, leaving the builder the al
teri ative of tearing up and rebuild
ing this section, or giving this in
ferior pavement 10 the state. The
latter selection was made"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-15
HEAVY RAINFALLS
Do MUCH DAMAGE
Many Towns in Southern and
Central Parts of State Are
Under Water.

INDIANAPOLIS. March Il -
Much damage has been done by the
heavy rainfalls in southern and cen
trail Indiana during the past two
days. according o reports reaching
here Tuesday night Many cities re-
ported streams swollen and over
flowing. Farmers in many places
have been va ned 10 move their
livestock and grain from the low
LANDS 10 places % safety. II is fear
ed some Of the Indiana streams will
pass the food stage Tuesday night
unless the rainfall ceases
Reports from TeTre Haute tonight
said the Wabash river there was
nearing the flood Stage. Many per
sons living in the lowlands in that
district were said 10 be moving
to higher ground.
The streets of Portland were re-
ported 20 be flooded. causing a tieup
in traffic there. the sewer system be-
ing unable 10 take care OF the heavy
flood. Miller's Branch, a small
stream near Portland, is out OF its
banks
The White and Wabash rivers in
the vicinity Of Princeton were rising
rapidly Tuesday n.sht. Streets OF
the town were reported flooded. as
the result Of the heavy rain.
Traffic was tied up several hours
at Connersville, il was reported,
when d portion Of the track Of the
Ind annapolis and Cincinnati traction
l.re was washed out. The streets OF
that place were Hooded. White river,
near Connersviue. was reported over
flowing its banks and threatening
tie lowlands.
The iOwlands along White river in
the vicinity of indianapolis and An
derson were ported 10 be flooded.
small bridge near Anderson was
washed out.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-15
Dodge EScdpdde Victim
Has Fractured Skull

KALAMAZOO. Mich, March IA
Miss Emmeline Kwakocoek, 10
year-old State Normal student, in
jrred when she jumped early Sun
day morning from an automobile
driven by John Dodge, son of the
late millionaire auto manufactures
of Detroit was said Tuesday morn
ing to be in a serious condition. AT
the hospital. where IL was stated she
was suffering from a fractured skull
all visitors were d1nied admittance
10 her room. Dodge arraigned Mon
day on charges of driving an auto
mobile while Intoxicated and ille-
gally transporting liquor. is under
bonds of $1,000 to appear for a
hearing Tuesday, March 21.h