By April C. Armstrong *14
In this week’s installment in our recurring series, housing capacity is strained, silent movies are on their way out, and more.
March 24, 1870—James McCosh tells alumni, “Princeton…is something like ‘the old woman who lived in a shoe and had so many children she did not know what to do.’ She has four hundred students, with room only for two hundred.” A new dormitory is scheduled to be built to address the capacity problems.
March 27, 1929—Courtland Smith, General Manager of Fox Movietone News, tells a student journalist that there will someday soon be no more silent movies, because people now have radios and are accustomed to recorded dialogue. Smith predicts that soon every home will have a television, and therefore an appetite for “sound pictures” will increase.
March 28, 1919—Franklin Delano Roosevelt is among the speakers at the Princeton Victory Dinner in Philadelphia.
March 30, 1972—A group of women respond to a petition circulating the campus calling for a referendum to end coeducation by suggesting that Princeton become a women’s college instead.
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