by April C. Armstrong *14

In this week’s installment in our recurring series, a new alum reflects on dramatic changes one day after leaving Princeton, a graduate student’s arrest remains newsworthy, and more.

July 23, 1937—A Princeton professor writes to a senator complaining about a recent vote on Supreme Court-packing and will later get a response that makes the news for its vitriol, including the claim from the senator, “you are unfit to come in contact with youngsters.”

July 26, 1917—Robert Nourse ’17 writes, “It certainly must be a dream. It is incredible to believe that I, who yesterday was grubbing my way through Dante’s ‘Divine Comedia,’ back in sleepy old Princeton, should now be sitting ‘somewhere in France,’ an officer in the French Army, Service Artillery, Division d’Automobiles, Section Sanitaire.”

July 27, 1942—The Daily Princetonian corrects its report on the arrest of graduate student Theodore von Laue, a German citizen who was taken into custody by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Von Laue is not, as has previously been reported, a supporter of any Nazi group.

July 28, 1980—New Jersey Savings Bank offers students checking accounts with 5% interest on balances over $1.

For the previous installment in this series, click here.

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