Word: bickering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prospect Street in Princeton is a shady avenue lined with 16 impressive clubs where upperclassmen live and move and have their meals. For 62 years now Tigertown has annually indulged in the pageantry of Bicker Week, when the clubs cull over the palpitating Sophomores for new blood-a stately procedure which the Dally Princetonian irreverently calls buffalo and twenty-three skidoo. From how on, the trustees have rules, every academically eligible Sophomore must be allowed to become a member of a club if he so wishes...
...system outlaws the traditional bicker week for club calling and largely abolishes the clubs' former right to select their members. Election to Princeton clubs will now be very similar to the system of House assignments here...
Battling over battleships and sweating over statistics today is the Senate Naval Affairs Committee in Washington. Whatever else the bicker and banter proves, it is apparent that the ancient American dream of a-navy-second-to-none is to be given dollars-and-cents substance. Justification for the proposed huge naval expenditures is the straw-man of German and Japanese aggression...
...twilight of academic generality the area plan emerges as a concrete problem which must be faced. For the concentration-distribution fight is more than a University Hall bicker about the technical requirements for a degree; it is a questioning of the very nature of the peculiar concoction known as a "liberal education." Harvard is not merely investigating itself; it is groping for the function and meaning of the whole educational process...
...series of seven editorial Daily Princetonian editors plan to attack the machinery of the club system and their social standards. They believe that "elimination of the cock-eyed bicker system will reduce social stratification...