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Still this February's "bicker period," during which sophomores receive bids to join the clubs, will again be a rocky one; the claim of 1955 has five negroes. Twelve of the 17 clubs draw no racial lines, but all have held a color barrier...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Princeton's Clubs Bow Three To Sophomore '100-percent' Drives | 11/7/1952 | See Source »

...Bicker code" defines "unethical practices" such as pre-Bicker beer parties and mailing Christmas greetings to promising sophomores...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Princeton's Clubs Bow Three To Sophomore '100-percent' Drives | 11/7/1952 | See Source »

...night of March 3, 1950, Dean Godolphin announced that the Undergraduate Interclub Committee had agreed to issue club bids to all sophomores; the controversial bicker was over...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Princeton's Clubs Bow Three To Sophomore '100-percent' Drives | 11/7/1952 | See Source »

Next year both the sophomores and the bicker period were relatively passive but again 100 percent was achieved. In 1952 all sophomore eligibles received bids on the second night of open house, in what the "Princetonian" called "a precedent-shattering climax...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Princeton's Clubs Bow Three To Sophomore '100-percent' Drives | 11/7/1952 | See Source »

...married and are pursued by two sets of indignant parents determined to stop them. Once thrown together, the girl's uppity parents and the boy's homespun folks take to each other so enthusiastically that they turn to playing Cupid when the youngsters bicker and part short of the altar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 31, 1951 | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

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