By April C. Armstrong *14
In this week’s installment in our recurring series, the baseball team’s schedule depends on the timing of a declaration of war, a student is stymied attempting to print a senior thesis, and more.
April 1, 1965—Parents’ Magazine run a story on host families for international students featuring Henry Bozimo ’63. Bozimo, a Nigerian, had a white host family, the Stones of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, who served as his home away from home.
April 4, 1893—Readers are anticipating Princeton Sketches, by George R. Wallace of the Class of 1891. The book, containing 40 illustrations, is advertised as “the first of the kind prepared for any American college.”
April 5, 1917—Members of the baseball team are waiting to find out when the United States will officially declare war with Germany to determine whether they will play against the University of Virginia tomorrow. If war is declared before their scheduled departure time of 10:04PM, they will call off the trip to Charlottesville.
April 6, 1983—Cathy Fisk ’83 arrives at the Computer Center to discover that a backlog means her thesis did not print overnight as expected, and there is no guarantee that it will be printed by her department’s deadline tomorrow. She decides to game the system by sending her thesis in short bursts, which the University’s sole laser printer prioritizes over longer files. “Morally, I’m opposed…but I’m doing it out of expedience,” she says.
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