With the "revival of learning" again comes a revival of interest in shot guns, rifles, revolvers, automatics, alarm clocks, tin horns, and noise makers of every variety, including the ancient Chaldean instrument, the vox humana, to disturb the night air at about 9 P. M.
"Polar's Recess" is one of the very ancient and revered customs at Princeton. It dates back many scores of years to the days when it was called the "Horn Spree" and when gun powder was used with less freedom than it is now. But the tradition dictates that there shall be a suspension of hostilities on Sunday evening. It is enough to disturbe the calm of the night on week days--Polar's Recess is out of order on Sunday night, and we hope that undergraduates will observe the custom to the extent of limiting their Sunday demonstration to the heaving of a gentle sigh and the turning of another page at 9 o'clock. --The Daily Princetonian
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