By April C. Armstrong *14

In this week’s installment in our recurring series, a new building’s design includes smoking space, a committee is formed to shade the library, and more.

December 17, 1924—Architects at the firm of Day & Klauder have prepared a proposed design for the new School of Engineering, to be built opposite the School of Science. Its design includes a conference room where Dean Arthur M. Greene writes that “students may meet for ‘bickering’ or smoking.”

December 18, 1860—The Board of Trustees approves the creation of a committee consisting of New Jersey’s governor, the College president, and the president of Princeton Theological Seminary “to take immediate measures for shading the windows of the Library with suitable blinds or screens, so as effectually to protect the books and portraits from injury.”

December 19, 1903—A new Princeton Alumni Association of Paris has been founded, and a reunion in France is planned.

December 21, 1881—The frosh are implicated in an incident which will make headlines throughout the region. The New York Herald will report that the group had a “horn spree” in the wee hours of this morning, “each student of the score or more provided with the most diabolically sounding tin horns that their small change could procure.” More than the noise, though, the town is concerned about all the gas streetlamps being shattered between 1:00 and 2:00 AM.

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