In this week’s installment in our recurring series, alumni push for archives, a Supreme Court justice tells an audience to “Get over it,” and more.

March 4, 1896—Alumni ask the Library to collect information on the history of the institution, saying “there is a most inadequate collection of Princeton Memorabilia at our service.”

March 6, 1967—Newsweek details the surprising story of how William H. Brown, Class of 1923, came to sign a contract with a struggling German writer to lease the writer’s wife for $39,000 after meeting the couple on a nude beach. The woman, who has been living with Brown in Arizona, is suing Brown for breach of promise, claiming he said he would marry her if she divorced her husband but is now refusing to do so.

March 7, 2008—In response to a question from Forest Sebastian ’10 about the Supreme Court’s decision to stop the Florida recount in the 2000 presidential election, Antonin Scalia says to a packed audience in McCosh 50, “Get over it, it’s eight years ago.”

March 9, 1918—The first issue of the Princeton Undergraduate War Bulletin is published.

For the previous installment in this series, click here.

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