By April C. Armstrong *14

In this week’s installment in our recurring series, Witherspoon Hall draws praise, a local egging is blamed on the influence of students, and more.

April 1, 1932—Tiger magazine celebrates its 50^th anniversary at the Hotel New Yorker.

April 4, 1988—Nearly 400 people show up at an anti-racism rally on campus on the 20^th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

April 5, 1877—Theodore Cuyler (Class of 1841) writes in the New York Evangelist:

The “Witherspoon Hall” has just been opened for students of the college, and it is enough to make one wish he were a college boy again. I suspect that President McCosh dreams about it every night.

April 6, 1901—An official at the local Trinity Episcopal Church tells a journalist that the recent incident in which a group of boys pelted each other with raw eggs after choir practice is due to the poor influence of Princeton students. The Boston Herald will cover the story: “Not until he had been well bespattered with yellow was the choir leader able to quell the disturbance.”

For the previous installment in this series, click here.

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