by April C. Armstrong *14

In this week’s installment of our recurring series, alumni support coeducation, some Presbyterians condemn Princeton, and more.

October 28, 1969—Reporters with the Daily Princetonian discover the identities of donors who have given in support of coeducation, seemingly revealed by an administrative mistake. Laurance S. Rockefeller, Class of 1932, has donated more than $2 million and is expected to donate $2 million more toward the funding for “Education of Women.”

October 29, 1897—The Missouri Presbyterian Synod condemns Princeton for serving wine at an event and for having professors who signed a petition for the Princeton Inn to obtain a saloon license. Further,

we express most emphatically our condemnation of the policy pursued at Princeton of permitting students to visit drinking places, and we do hereby warn the officials concerned in this matter that their course has been condemned and is a reproach upon the whole Presbyterian church…

Their warning will be published in the Boston Daily Advertiser.

October 30, 1863—With an election coming up, the Princeton Standard urges everyone to vote, including students, if they are residents and otherwise qualified. However, they warn, “Vote for no man who directly or indirectly incites to a resistance of the laws, and encourages riot.”

November 1, 1933—In protest of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s expressed intentions regarding U.S. relations with Soviet Union, a Student League for the Non-Recognition of Soviet Russia is forming on campus.

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