by April C. Armstrong *14

In this week’s installment of our recurring series, locals are excited to welcome students back to town, ground is broken on a new U-Store building, and more.

August 17, 1907—In Town & Country, Wilson Farrand criticizes Princeton’s admissions requirements.

In meeting these requirements more than three fourths of the entire school time is devoted to the study of language, less than twenty per cent to Mathematics, and a very small fraction to History. Language study is extremely valuable, and it is perhaps the most efficient instrument of education we have, but it is a serious question whether three fourths of a boy’s time up to the age of eighteen is not too much to give up to it, and whether it is educationally wise to let a boy reach that age without even an introduction to the great field of science.

August 18, 1865—Locals are effusive about the new students in town.

The Fall Session of College opened yesterday with a good promise of a large accession of students. The examinations for admittance are becoming more and more rigid, showing that the standard is steadily rising. … The College is strong enough to maintain a wholesome discipline, and as good a moral government over its pupils, as the New England Colleges maintain.

August 20, 1945—The Spanish Club (La Tertulia) will meet in Murray-Dodge Hall tonight. This new group aims to give students more practice in conversational Spanish.

August 22, 1957—Ground is broken for the new U-Store building.

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