By April C. Armstrong *14
In this week’s installment of our recurring series, a speaker expresses concern about the reunification of Germany, students make mischief in Trenton, and more.
September 30, 1974—Shelby Cullom Davis ’30 tells Michael Zielenziger ’77 and Joel Goldstein ’75,
despite all the careerism now, this has happened before and I think basically women will get back to children and families; this is a very important job for them. … I think that is their role, unless they want to bear the child and then kick him out and let him run the streets. This is, after all, another generation. Even Russia is getting back to that, you know.
October 1, 1869—To discourage his advances, a local woman has a love letter written to her by a member of the Class of 1873 published in the Princeton Standard for local mockery. The letter includes the line, “You have nothing to do where you are staying so you know no excuse for not answering.”
October 2, 1990—David Barnouw of the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation lectures on “Anne Frank, Her Diary, and the World” in McCormick Hall. In his talk, he expresses concerns about the reunification of Germany, saying there may be a “Fourth Reich.” (The reunification process will be completed on October 3, 1990.)
October 3, 1890—A group of Princeton students goes on a crime spree in Trenton, pulling signs down from hotels and stores, posting notices on the doors of private residences, and painting graffiti on a detective’s door and the door of the YMCA. Some sophomores put up proclamations (“procs”) for the Class of 1894 (the frosh) on every available surface. The frosh respond by following them around town tearing down the posters. The Trenton Times will report, “It is understood that the sophomores will have a copy of this proclamation preserved in the college archives.”
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