(Verses in response to “A Tragic Candidate in the Princeton ‘Conclave’ for University President” by Harrison Blackman ’17)
E. Harris Harbison excelled with Renaissance and Reformation While Walter P. Hall did industrialization — And Professor Mommsen spread humanization Most excellent introduction to European civilization
Robert Goheen was a politician What better way to achieve his mission
Philip Hitti brought us Princeton Arabization While Walter Stace spread rationalization And Harold Dodds meant stabilization
Ralph Adam Cram’s Princeton Chapel Headed by Chaplain Aldrich most affable What a taste such delicacies from his wife’s buffet With many chapel deacons dressed extraordinarily
Carlos Baker — what a beautiful man Firestone Library — what élan! James Thorpe what grandeur! We had for Nassau Hall such amour
Prospect Street each building so remarkable No comparison either at Harvard or Yale On weekends it was peppered with male and female
But when we walked from Brown Hall to Cannon Green Princeton was a dream never since seen.
(Verses in response to “A Tragic Candidate in the Princeton ‘Conclave’ for University President” by Harrison Blackman ’17)
E. Harris Harbison excelled with Renaissance and Reformation
While Walter P. Hall did industrialization —
And Professor Mommsen spread humanization
Most excellent introduction to European civilization
Robert Goheen was a politician
What better way to achieve his mission
Philip Hitti brought us Princeton Arabization
While Walter Stace spread rationalization
And Harold Dodds meant stabilization
Ralph Adam Cram’s Princeton Chapel
Headed by Chaplain Aldrich most affable
What a taste such delicacies from his wife’s buffet
With many chapel deacons dressed extraordinarily
Carlos Baker — what a beautiful man
Firestone Library — what élan!
James Thorpe what grandeur!
We had for Nassau Hall such amour
Prospect Street each building so remarkable
No comparison either at Harvard or Yale
On weekends it was peppered with male and female
But when we walked from Brown Hall to Cannon Green
Princeton was a dream never since seen.
— Charles Graves ’53