By April C. Armstrong *14

In this week’s installment in our recurring series, the preceptorial system is changing campus culture, locals are impressed with a new professor, and more.

January 27, 1906—The Princeton Alumni Weekly writes that the new Preceptorial System is changing things:

the strenuous midnight-oil habit, the invigorating cold-towel-around-the-head stratagem vs. sleep, and the physical-and-mental-wreck harvest are by way of joining some other lamented late customs,–although, it is proper to add, we have not heard that any simple student is promising himself a season of otium cum dignitate during the ensuing fortnight.

January 29, 1940—The arrest of Robert Raymond Capes, who confesses to stealing a bronze tablet memorializing the Battle of Princeton, puts an end to a rash of thefts of historical markers throughout town.

January 30, 1875—Locals are impressed with George Macloskie, Princeton’s new professor of natural history. One writes,

His opening lecture has left a happy impression of his public endeavors, and we are happy to add that in ordinary social life he is pleasing. Students we believe will find in him a friend and a helper.

February 2, 1893—J. Mackintosh Eckard reports for Chicago’s Interior that there is a religious revival sweeping Princeton. “One hundred men every morning before breakfast get together, and pray for the spiritual welfare of the college.”

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