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Tiger Tuesday: Sheet music for “Here Comes the Tiger!: A Princeton Song,” by P. D. McMaster and F. H. Dyckmann of the Class of 1914. When the song came out in 1913, the Daily Princetonian wrote that it “promises to take its place among the most popular Tiger war-cries.”

Princeton Music Collection (AC056), Box 10.

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Menu Monday: The Daily Princetonian annual banquet, March 8, 1965. At the banquet, Wall Street Journal editor Bernard Kilgore noted a surge in local newspapers and predicted, “I don’t think we’re going to see such a thing as a real national daily newspaper.”

Daily Princetonian General Records (AC285), Box 2

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In my opinion (as well as in that of almost our entire class) it is a pure waste of time, money and muscle for Princeton to compete with other colleges on the water.

Andrew Wilkins Wilson, Jr., Class of 1883, quoted in the Princetonian on February 1, 1884, on why he believes the College of New Jersey (Princeton) should not establish a rowing crew