by April C. Armstrong *14

In this week’s installment of our recurring series, alumnae are charting new paths, Amelia Earhart weighed in on mandatory parachute-jumping classes, and more.

June 1, 1983—Of those polled, 41% of women in the Princeton Class of 1973 say they are the first woman to hold their current jobs.

June 3, 1893—Harper’s Bazaar advises young women to visit at less popular times if they want to see Princeton as it truly is:

Most young ladies would rather hurry down with a big trunk in a crowded special train, and go to four teas, meet a score of young men apiece whom they will never see again, dance all night, and then, in a few minutes, arise looking as fresh as they did on Easter Sunday, and smile good-byes at the depot to the breakfastless young men whom they have forsaken and sleepy to try to go on where they left off, while they themselves hurry back to town, and to anther dance the next night.

June 5, 1935—Amelia Earhart’s views on whether Princeton University should require students to take parachute-jumping courses are quoted in the Daily Princetonian. Earhart is opposed, she has told the Prince reporter, because “I don’t believe in required courses.”

June 7, 1877—Students complain, “This style of weather leads to profanity and ice cream.”

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