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| | Thomas, Norman [Mattoon] |
 | | Thomas, Norman [Mattoon] (1884-1968), six times Socialist candidate for president of the United States, 1928 through 1948, began what he called a lifelong ``love affair with Old Nassau'' when, as a ``gangling lad'' in Marion, Ohio, a family friend gave him a copy of Jesse Lynch Williams's Princeton Stories. |
 | | After a year at Bucknell, Thomas was admitted to Princeton in the fall of 1902 as a ``heavily conditioned'' sophomore thus becoming ``a member of the glorious Class of 1905.'' He passed off his conditions, qualified for the ``first general group'' all three years, and was chosen class valedictorian at graduation. |
 | | Thomas later recalled that he had been barred as a speaker from the Princeton campus from 1917 to 1924 but that to his ``pleased surprise'' he was given an honorary degree in 1932. |
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