On Saturday the Yale News gave fits approval in an editorial which we reprint in another column to Princeton's newly planned library declaring that Princeton is not just "hitching her wagon to a star."
The Yale paper regretted to point out that Princeton has been "for some time hailed as the home of 'professional football' and big time athletics, " but the authors of the editorial were pleased to see that, despite this fact, Old Nassau has wisely decided to erect a library instead of having a gymnasium built to replace her "notoriously old" recreational building.
While this analytical editorial is profuse in its approval of the general plans for the library, it is noticeable that the News has made some very unusual and hitherto unheard declarations. Few Princetonians know that their Alma Mater has long been hailed as the home of "professional football;" in fact the News doubtless occupies a position well in the forefront in bringing this fact to light. Princeton were further doubtless ignorant that the long-planned library was in danger of oblivion because of a co-existent desire for a new gymnasium in which to house its "big-time" athletes. The News may be interested to more that, despite its intimations, the above facts are still entirely unestablished in reality.
We submit to the editors of the News our advice to confer with their athletic director. Malcolm Farmer, in order to clarify their apparent misconceptions. --The Princetonian (Part of the editorial mentioned is reprinted below)
PRINCETON'S LIBRARY
Princeton has taken a long step forward in the plans for its new library announced recently by President Harold Willis Dodds. For some time hailed as the home of "professional football" and big-time athletics, Princeton has wisely chosen to construct a new library rather than replace her notoriously old gymnasium, about which there has been so much under-graduate and alumni complaint. This action should go for toward discouraging much unjust criticism which has been directed toward that university. -Yale News
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