Perfect Behavior: A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in All Social Crises

A Correct Letter from a Princeton Student to a Yale Student Congratulating the Latter on His Football Victory MY DEAR “FRIENDLY ENEMY”: Well, well, it was a jolly game, wasn’t it, and it was so good to see you in “Old Nassau.” I am sorry that you could not have come earlier in the fall, when the trees were still bronze and gold. I also regret exceedingly that you did not stay over until Sunday, for it would have been such a treat to have taken you to see the Graduate School buildings and the Cleveland Memorial Tower. However, “better luck next time.” The enclosed check is, as you may well guess, in payment of our wager on the result of the gridiron-contest. Truly, I am almost glad that I lost, for I can not but think that gambling in any form is at best an unprofitable diversion, and this has taught me, I hope, a lesson from which I may well benefit. Do not think me a “prig,” dear Harry, I beg of you, for I am sure that you will agree with me that even a seemingly innocent wager on a football match may lead in later life to a taste for gambling with dice and cards or even worse. Shall we not agree to make this our last wager— or at least, next time, let us not lend it the appearance of professional gambling by giving “odds,” such as I gave you this year.