Articles filed under “Nostalgia”

I remember a time, not so very long ago, when jobs were just these things that old people had to get when they left college. It didn’t sound like very much fun. After all, you had to leave college and go into this “real world” that everyone is always talking about. No more intramural sports, no more binge-drinking, no more co-eds.

On the other hand, it sounded kind of cute. All you had to do — from what I was told — was show up to the office of your choice a couple months after graduating, present your Princeton diploma, and voila, instant job (six-figure salary to be determined)! Sure, it wasn’t going to be college, but it didn’t seem all bad.

Now? We’re all fucked.

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We here at The Ink normally try to stay away from sensational stories about Ivy League kids doing crazy drugs. But stand back. We’re about to break our own rule.

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OPIUM? What the hell?

I mean, I guess the drug has a cool retro appeal. While the kids going out to “80s Night” blow lines of coke in their best Tony Montana impersonation (a good proportion of the male population in attendance will name Scarface as their favorite movie of all time), it’s not totally out of the question for indie hipsters to have a “China in the 1700s” party. But apparently, opium just hit campus a couple of days ago and swept through the tight-jeaned population like a new Arcade Fire album.

But what’s the appeal?

Says one anonymous junior riding this drug-crazed wave: “It’s like a cross between weed and pain killers.”

Ah ha! Just in case you can’t find your Vicodin and/or joint!

More questions after the jump!

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This fall will mark the 40th anniversary of coeducation at Princeton. Let’s look at some photos of the 171 trailblazing women who arrived on campus in 1969.

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Midriff exposed!

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Candid!

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Thought the Holder Howl was something special? It’s not. It’s just a crappier version of the 20th century Poler’s Recess.

The Class of 1947 will tell you how it’s really done:

In January, 1949, the Daily Princetonian published a letter from an outraged alumnus from the class of 1947, which read: “It has come to my attention that the ancient and honorable custom of the 11:00 p.m. break during finals is no longer observed. …The event was to last exactly ten minutes, during which “all radios, phonographs, pianos, saxophones, trumpets, etc. are to be played at full volume,” “firecrackers to the diameter of three inches are to be set off in strategic areas,” and “all ice-box pans will be emptied and beaten vigorously.”

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If you can’t get enough of the good old days of the Princeton Men’s Basketball team, here are some pictures (via Ivy-Style) of the team’s most famous member, Bill Bradley ‘65, before he became a Rhodes Scholar, US Senator, loser to Gore, all around badass, etc.

newyorkercartoonBy Michael Crawford
From the April 26, 1999 issue of The New Yorker

(source: cartoonbank.com)

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A Charleston party at Princeton in 1949

More crazy pictures after the jump!:

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With Houseparties approaching faster than we can finish our JPs, we thought we’d offer some inspiration and share some pictures of a Princeton dance in 1960, before coeducation (via Ivy-Style). Note the awkwardness:

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This cartoon from the ’80s is particularly fitting because Class of 2010 President Aditya Panda ‘10 recently sent an electronic missive to all rising seniors informing them about free membership to the Princeton Club in NYC for an entire year starting this summer. Score! (We’ll just ignore the unfortunate fact that the Princeton Club is ugly and embarrassing compared to the Harvard and Yale Clubs.)

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By Henry Martin ‘48
Published in The New Yorker (December 12, 1988
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(image source: http://tigernet.princeton.edu/~ptoniana/)

fluAs the swine flu that emerged in Mexico began to make headlines, the quaint hamlet that is Princeton had its own worries: Whooping cough! …But now swine flu too, after students from Queens began exhibiting symptoms this week.

All this talk of quarantines and masks and avoiding small children naturally got us thinking about the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that infected a third of the world’s population .

Princeton was lucky in that no students died, though the halls of McCosh were packed. We’d say the administration handled it pretty well –shutting off the campus and isolating its students from the flu.

We found an article in a recent Princeton Alumni Weekly, “Why Princeton was spared,” about …why Princeton was spared. Also in the article is a look back at what Princeton was like during World War I. (Hint: West Point!)

The best quotes after the jump.

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A Japanese photographer traveled to Ivy League schools in the late 1960s to document the American Trad/Ivy League Preppy style of the era. Copies of the book are very hard to come by (a copy was just sold on eBay for $1500), and photos from the book have been circulating the blogosphere like crazy in recent months.

Here are photographs from the book that depict Princeton. Take a gander! And pine away for a bygone era. (Except for the whole anti-black/anti-women part…)

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(image sources: thetrad.blogspot.com & acontinuouslean.com)