100 Years of PAW - March 8, 2000
Princeton Alumni Weekly remembers
Selections from our first century of publication
March 1, 1902
Painting Trenton
The dozen foolish freshmen who were caught one night last week daubing their class numerals in orange on things in Trenton were suspended by the faculty for an indefinite period. . . . The only way to make undergraduates shed such puerility is for older undergraduates to voice a sentiment against it. That is just what the Daily Princetonian endeavored to do, but perhaps it did not start in time, for the freshmen went about their work of painting this part of the state with more thoroughness than ever before, and were so self-sacrificing for the cause that some of them might have frozen to death if they had not taken refuge in a farm-house, whence they were conveyed to Princeton, with feet wrapped in grain bags, by a rescuing party in a sleigh.
March 15, 1911
A Grad's complaint
(Letter to the editor from W. A. Courson '81). Don't you know that it makes an "Old Grad." feel "kinder bad" and gives him a "pang" at the heart to come back to his old College and see things uprooted and changed, and old landmarks wiped off the face of the earth? I remember how badly I felt the first time I came back and saw the old "Bulletin Tree" no longer standing in the old place,-the old tree with its million tacks or more sticking in the bark; likewise the Old Chapel and East College-why, it seemed as if I had lost an old friend, like "Old Jim" the apple man, who seemed to live forever.
Between 1877 and 1881, the life of our class at College, the Dome on the Halsted Observatory was always a blue color, "sky blue" you might call it, and for many years thereafter it still remained a blue color, a conspicuous landmark on the campus, and painted a color in keeping for a building devoted to the study of the sky. Then, on one of my visits to Old Nassau I saw that the old Blue Dome was gone and a plain, grim, unsentimental gray had taken its place, and it did not look or seem like the old Observatory at all.
March 1, 1957
FREE ENTERPRISE GRINDS ON
"It was late at night, and this guy came into our entry and yelled: 'Hoagies. Hoagies.' He really did," a student reported. This is the shape of new enterprise on the Princeton campus.
A hoagie, which is also known as a grinder or a submarine, is a big sandwich made out of a large roll filled with assorted food. One night Bruce Garand '59 and George Treyz '59 made six hoagies, for themselves and to sell to the boys next door. Now they make 200 a day, employ a staff of seven, and their Tiger Grinder Agency has an exclusive priority on campus sales and is registered with the Bureau of Student Aid.
March 9, 1965
Jadwin bequest
There was an audible gasp, followed by cheers, when President Goheen (after relating needs of $150 million) announced a $27 million bequest from Mrs. Stanley P. Jadwin. This is the largest gift by an individual in Princeton history and is exceeded only by the $35 million from a group of anonymous donors for the Woodrow Wilson School four years ago.
A widow, Mrs. Jadwin was the mother of L. Stockwell Jadwin '28, the aunt of Palmer Jadwin Lathrop '31 and the sister-in-law of Henry R. Lathrop '00, all deceased.
March 5, 1974
Oscar-nominated film
The university's new recruiting film, Princeton: A Search for Answers, has received the penultimate accolade. It has been nominated for an Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as one of five candidates in the category of short documentaries. The half-hour film, which has been shown mainly to alumni and candidates for admission, was produced by Krainin/Sage Productions, Inc. of New York.
March 6, 1991
Era of the all-male Club Ends
After twelve years, four lawsuits, one countersuit, and scores of pickets, protests, dialogues, discussions, and disagreements, the sun set on the era of all-male eating clubs in early February. Tiger Inn, which had remained defiant despite increased pressure to admit women over the past decade, finally yielded to a ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court in the suit by Sally Frank '80 against the last two all-male clubs, Ivy and T.I. Ivy accepted women last fall.
On January 22, the United States Supreme Court announced a series of cases it would and would not review; by failing to accept T.I.'s petition for a writ of certiorari, the court denied the club its last chance to stay all-male. On February 3, coed bicker began, and five days later, T.I. officially admitted its first twenty-seven female members.
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