By April C. Armstrong *14

In this week’s installment in our recurring series, a political meeting on campus meets with disapproval, a basketball coach is teaching tennis, and more.

October 9, 1884—Locals are discussing a mysterious stranger in town claiming to be the brother of two students who left college a year ago. The man drank 30 glasses of beer at Dohm’s liquor store on Nassau Street in less than two hours before walking away and disappearing down the canal’s tow path. The New York Tribune will report that it is probably a man from Cincinnati who has two brothers who left Princeton a year ago and “who was irregular in his habits.”

October 10, 1827—New Brunswick’s Fredonian expresses disapproval of the Jacksonian meeting on Princeton’s campus, decrying the leader of the meeting for his “Stentorian lungs” and the philosophies of Jacksonians themselves: “This turbulency better comports with faction and anarchy, than the genius of our government.”

October 12, 1971—Due to budget cuts, varsity basketball coach Pete Carril is now teaching a tennis course as part of the physical education curriculum. He says he isn’t enthusiastic about the arrangement, but “somebody has to do it.”

October 13, 1848—Fees for attending the Law School of the College of New Jersey in Princeton are advertised at $50 per session. After two years of study, students will be awarded the degree of Bachelor of Laws, unless they are already admitted to the bar, in which case only one year will be required. (Princeton’s Law School will close in the 1850s.)

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