By April C. Armstrong *14
In this week’s installment in our recurring series, campus protests are deemed “refined,” rumors are circulating in town, and more.
May 26, 1947—A pollster with a popular women’s magazine is on campus asking students about their ideal mates. Most Princetonians say they prefer cooking skills to dancing proficiency. In contrast to peers at M.I.T. and Duke, they also say they want a future spouse to drink.
May 28, 1968—Connecticut’s Bridgeport Post reports that although things are changing at Princeton and demonstrations are becoming more common, over the past year
the protests at Princeton were less militant, more refined than those, for instance, at Columbia University, a fellow Ivy League member. … Most of Princeton’s clean shaven, well-starched underclassmen still cling to the image of well-educated, socially minded young men.
May 30, 1843—Newark’s Centinel of Freedom publishes an alum’s account of the cicadas emerging in Princeton in 1817, which he had taken as an opportunity for scientific research.
I could not learn that the locusts took any nourishment while above ground, and am inclined to the opinion that their sole business in our world is to propagate their species, and die.
May 31, 1861—Rumors are circulating that secessionist sympathizers are holding secret meetings in town.
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