The Best of PAW:
100 Years of Princeton Alumni Weekly

At last it's out -- The Best of PAW: 100 Years the Princeton Alumni Weekly, which former editor J.I. (Jim) Merritt '66 has been working on for much of the last 16 months, arrived from the printer on November 13.

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Read interview of author J.I. Merritt '66: We asked Merritt, who edited PAW from 1989 to 1999, a few questions about this centennial anthology.


Table of Contents

 

A Brief History of PAW

Notes & Acknowledgments

1746-1900: The Pre-PAW Era

Introduction

Princeton's Roots: An Amalgam of Models

God's Quarrel with Princeton

A Tale of Two Churches

When Princeton Was the Nation's Capital

The Madison Blues

Life in Old North

George Washington as a Princeton Parent

The Great Rebellion of 1807

Princeton During the Civil War

Princeton's Scottish Connection

The First Intercollegiate Football Game

· Kicking in the "Fat-Ball" Era

Princeton's Grand Matron

The Revival of the Games

Little Big Man

Princeton in Whose Service?

Princeton and the Spanish-American War

J. I. MERRITT '66

 

 

 

LAWRENCE STONE

JOHN M. MURRIN

FREDERIC E. FOX '39

CONSTANCE ESCHER S'67

DAVID WILLIAMSON '84

NATHANIEL BURT '36

VIRGINIA KAYS CREESY

AIMS MCGUINNESS '90

CLAY MACCAULEY 1863

LIONEL GOSSMAN

ARTHUR S. HARRIS, JR.

WILLIAM C. STRYKER '50

STEPHEN R. DUJACK '76

STEPHEN R. DUJACK '76

MEIR Z. RIBALOW '70

THEODORE J. ZIOLKOWSKI

PAUL KRAMER *98

 

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1900-1914: A University Comes of Age

Introduction & Short Takes

The Patton-Wilson Succession

The Preceptors

Wilson's Role in Football

Judge Medina's School Days

"The Finest Gentleman I Ever Met"

"The Good Old Days"

The "Old" Faculty

 

 

HOWARD SEGAL *75

JOHN D. DAVIES '41

STEPHEN R. DUJACK '76

J. WOODFORD HOWARD, JR. *59

JOHN D. DAVIES '41

BROWN RALSTON '10

JOHN D. DAVIES '41

 

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1914-1930: World War I & the Jazz Age

Introduction & Short Takes

"The Symbol of Freedom"

The Sophomore Revolt

Princeton in the Twenties

Remembering the Team of Destiny

Lourie and Love: The Best of Friends

Christian Gauss

The Legend of Moe Berg '23

Hibben at Close Range

Revisiting the Christian Student

F. Scott Fitzgerald '17 and Princeton

    Scott Fitzgerald on Princeton

    Others on Fitzgerald

    A Ghost Who Still Haunts the Campus

Yankee Feudalist

Landscaping the Campus

 

 

ANONYMOUS

HENRY T. DUNN '17

NELSON R. BURR '27

RICHARD K. REIN '69

DAVID MICHAELIS '79

ERIK BARNOUW '29

H. U. RIBALOW & M.Z. RIBALOW '70

ALEXANDER LEITCH '24

CLIFTON R. READ '29

JOHN D. DAVIES '41 161

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD '17

VARIOUS

SUSAN WILLIAMS '74 166

EDWARD TENNER '65 168

ANN WALDRON 171

 

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1930-1946: Depression & World War II

Introduction & Short Takes

The Curious History of Physics at Princeton

Princeton's Cole Porter

The Veterans of Future Wars

Ahead of His Time

How World War II Changed Princeton

· "Three Wise, Magic Gifts"

The Healing Moment

 

 

 

JOHN D. DAVIES '41

ROBERT D. B. CARLISLE '44

RICHARD D. CHALLENER '44

DAN KLEIN '92

RICHARD D. CHALLENER '44

HAMILTON DARBY PERRY '46

WILLIAM ZINSSER '44

 

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1946-1966: The Postwar Years

Introduction & Short Takes

A Farewell to Deanery

The World of Mike Kopliner

The Hiss Hassle Revisited

The Days of a Dean

Reflections of a Scrubby Gun

Hess's Geological Revolution

The Big Riot

Lust and Love at Pre-Coed Princeton

The Invisible Preppies

Bill Bradley's Farewell

Of Sheetless Beds and Firestone

 

 

JEREMIAH S. FINCH

DAVE SIDFORD '39

JOHN D. FOX '76

WILLIAM D'O. LIPPINCOTT '41

SELDEN EDWARDS '63

J. I. MERRITT '66

WILLIAM A. MCWHIRTER '63

DANIEL N. WHITE '65

LANDON Y. JONES, JR. '66

A. F. BURGESS '65 & J. M. MARKHAM '65

BILL BRADLEY '65

 

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1966-1980: Protest & Change

Introduction & Short Takes 293

The Rise of Student Power

Anatomy of a Decision

The Black Arrival at Princeton

The Hickel Heckling

Season of Discontent

The Education of William G. Bowen *58

· Bowen's First Year

Sex and the Single Student

Trials of the Coed 100

Princeton's First Female Athletes

Tune Ev'ry Heart

Russian Reunion

The Amazing Dr. Boom

In the Classroom with Aaron Lemonick *54

The Trees of Princeton

· Henry Horn, Forest Ecologist

Princeton in the Movies

Paper Tuba

The Festival and Fantasy of Princeton Reunions

Reunions Make Me Cry

The Big Hoax

The Speaker and the Scratcher

A Writing Workshop with Joyce Carol Oates

 

 

 

RICHARD K. REIN '69

LUTHER MUNFORD '71

CARL A. FIELDS

LANDON Y. JONES '66

TOM KRATTENMAKER

LANDON Y. JONES '66

RICHARD K. REIN '69

SUSAN WILLIAMS '74

JANE LEIFER '73

LESLIE ALDRIDGE WESTOFF

A. SCOTT BERG '71

FREDERIC E. FOX '39

DANIEL N. WHITE '65

WILLIAM MCCLEERY

J. I. MERRITT '66

J. I. MERRITT '66

ALEXANDER WOLFF '79

STEPHEN R. DUJACK '76

DANIEL N. WHITE '65

ANNE RIVERS SIDDONS S'48

ERIC LANDER '78

DAVID MICHAELIS '79

MARGARET M. KEENAN

 

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1980-2000: Steady as She Goes

Introduction & Short Takes

Why Does Culture Exist?

The Brothers Billington

The Stones of Princeton

Philosophy and the Modern Mind

A Study in Styles

Tracking a Once and Future Tradition

Singing for AIDS

Harold Shapiro at Mid-Stream

Orgo Master

Homeric Vision

A "Divine" Reunion

Wile E. Quixote

Wrestling with Satan

The Wonderful Life of Jimmy Stewart '32

Toni Morrison's Atelier

The Fictive Princeton

Princeton Myths

Masters of the House

 

 

 

ROBERT WRIGHT '79

ANN WALDRON

J. I. MERRITT '66

CHARLES L. CREESY '65

EDWARD TENNER '65

GREG PHILLIPS '93

DANIEL N. WHITE '65

J. I. MERRITT '66

SAMANTHA L. MILLER '95

ANN WALDRON

CAROLINE MOSELEY

ALEXANDER WOLFF '79

KATHRYN F. GREENWOOD

D. W. MILLER '89

DEBORAH A. KAPLE *91

ANN WALDRON

WES TOOKE '98

JULIE RAWE '97

 

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Appendices

List of PAW's Editors 503

List of PAW's Staff Members 504

List of Contributors 505

Index 507


Order Best of PAW Online

Read interview of author J.I. Merritt '66: We asked Merritt, who edited PAW from 1989 to 1999, a few questions about this centennial anthology.