By April C. Armstrong *14
In this week’s installment of our recurring series, alumni are frustrated, a senior is honored by a modeling agency, and more.
December 15, 1876—Self-described ‘older alumni” write of their frustrations with fundraising,
The charge has been constantly made that the first object of the management has been to get money, and that to this end all other interests of the college have been bent; and the specifications are that the trustees have given their time to selecting the victims, and then the president has been pointed at this pursuit; that in this dubious task he has been kept from his post one-fourth of the term time; that there cannot be named a childless capitalist in the Presbyterian Church where he has not been sent to dine, wine, and beg, nor a wealthy maiden he has not visited to remind her that Princeton only needs money to be made worthy of the sons she would have sent there had she only married and had some.
David Oliphant Irving, Class of 1878, will later clip their words from a newspaper and paste them in his scrapbook.
December 16, 1897—The Alumni Princetonian reports that there is now a new Texas Alumni Association of Princeton, which has followed the establishment of the Princeton Club of Albuquerque in New Mexico last month.
December 18, 1951—The models of the Sherry Carson agency have voted Dick Kazmaier ’52 America’s most eligible bachelor. He has defeated J. Edgar Hoover, Marlon Brando, and Tennessee Williams, among others, for the honor. Kazmaier is not available for comment.
December 19, 1956—The Department of Defense announces that they will award the Congressional Medal of Honor to John Upshur Dennis Page ’26 for heroic action at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, December 11, 1950. Page was killed in action while defending a U.S. Marines convoy alone.
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