By April C. Armstrong *14
In this week’s installment in our recurring series, the college president’s clothes are stolen, a student questions Bill Clinton, and more.
April 14, 1940—A progressive student newspaper, Princeton Sunday News, makes its first appearance.
April 16, 1888—While president-elect Francis Landey Patton is staying at the home of Judge S. M. Breckenridge in St. Louis to attend an alumni banquet there, a burglar breaks in and steals his clothes. A clipping a member of the Class of 1877 will keep in his scrapbook will report,
Until his loss of clothing could be supplied Dr. Patton was furnished with a coat and vest by Judge Breckenridge, but as the latter is short and inclined to be stout and the former is tall and inclined to be very slender the gentlemen who met Dr. Patton yesterday doubtless supposed that the difference between himself and his vest represented the difference between what he was after a Chicago banquet and what he be expected to be after a St. Louis banquet.
April 18, 1861—The stars and stripes are seen flying above the Nassau Hall cupola.
April 19, 1994—Sasha Greenawalt ’94 appears on MTV’s Enough is Enough, questioning guest President Bill Clinton regarding his approach to the Bosnian crisis. “Why so little? Why so late? Why should I vote for you again?”
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