First Look: Princeton

Princeton's preview of Saturday's game against Dartmouth has been posted. It includes a note that I hadn't realized:

Princeton’s four-game win streak over Dartmouth is the longest in this series for the Orange and Black since the 1949-1952 stretch.

Ouch.

The full Princeton game notes with stats and capsules of the Tigers' games can be found here.

I found this on the Tiger Blog:

The football season ends with the 88th meeting between Princeton and Dartmouth, and fans who bring a non-perishable food item to benefit the Mercer Street Friends Food Bank will get free admission to the game.

Assuming it means what it says, I suppose we'll be packing some cans in on Saturday. With cross country and high school football over, that certain Hanover High junior, that certain freshman and that certain blogger's extraordinarily understanding wife will be making the trip. We'll be heading down after school Friday.

The Columbia Spectator has a look at the final week of the Ivy League season and brings up the possibility of the four-way tie that an Alert reader might have been among the first to point out back on the Nov. 11 blog.

Today's trivia: Did you know that there are more meteorologists per capita in State College, Pa., than anywhere else in the world? It helps that the meteorology department at Penn State is world-class and that it spawned AccuWeather, which is headquartered in State College. And why do I bring that up, besides being Penn State Proud as they say? Because here's the AccuWeather forecast for Princeton Saturday:

High: 39 °F RealFeel®: 26 °F
Partly sunny, brisk and cold

The San Francisco 49ers website has a lengthy feature on Jeff Kemp '81, the former Dartmouth quarterback who filled in for Joe Montana during one season of his 11-year NFL career. There's some good stuff in the story.

The Yale Daily News cites statistics from the latest Chronicle of Higher Education in a story on compensation for Ivy League presidents. From the story:

Columbia University President Lee Bollinger was the highest-paid Ivy League president in that year, receiving a compensation package worth a total of $1,411,894. Amy Guttman, president of the University of Pennsylvania, was second at $1,088,786, according to the Chronicle, which on Monday released its annual report on the compensation of university presidents.

And this ...

James Wright, the president of Dartmouth College, was again the lowest-paid Ivy League president with $569,761 in total compensation.

And finally, a quote passed along by that certain Hanover High junior, who has heard someone agonizing over the pain inflicted on him by a specter called The Pessimist:

"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."

-George F. Will