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PRINCETON, N.J.--Bicker, the annual eating club selection period, began last Wednesday, with the Princeton community anxiously hoping to avoid a repetition of last winter's fiasco...
Representatives of the seventeen undergraduate eating clubs started calling on 689 sophomores in their rooms Wednesday evening and will continue the process until next Friday. Thirty-nine members of the class have already chosen not to Bicker and have joined Woodrow Wilson Lodge, the "alternate facility" provided by the University...
...childish things. The black and orange pennants are safely tacked over the mantle, the silver steins glisten in a row, and lights burn late as the chill dusk gathers in across the rolling lawns. Happy thoughts of golden autumn weekends linger, but the mood is one of manly anticipation: Bicker, once again, draws high...
...Bicker, like the British constitution, is a system of values developed over the years by the concentrated effort of some of our finest minds. Though Bicker's history scarcely ranks with Britain's in terms of length, the two stand together as monuments of principle. No less resolute than Mr. Churchill in 1940, the boys of Bicker know full well the consequence of yielding to that which is foreign. If Mr. Churchill was busy thwarting the idea of a Master Race, and if the Bicker boys now seem intent on preserving it, no matter; it is a question of principle...
...redefining of anything quite as absolute as "100 per cent" will require a semantic and mathematical wizardry which only a Princeton Einstein could manage. Still, we have faith in the Inter-Club Council's ability to turn a 95 per cent Bicker into a 100 per cent Bicker--the difficult they can do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer...