Word: bickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bicker" is the annual process by which sophomores are chosen for election to the unproctored, privately owned and operated eating clubs. The college newspaper calls it "the most important single value-forming experience of the average undergraduate's career at Princeton...
...object of Bicker, according to a booklet published by the clubs themselves ("Now That You Are Eligible"), is to discover "personableness in the individual" and "congeniality of the total section." It is a method for assuring each club that any student to whom it offers a bid is of the "club type...
...rebels talk and bicker incessantly. But they dig deep to support the cause, and they constantly risk their lives and fortunes for a single, basic political goal: return of constitutional government, which Batista disrupted by his 1952 army coup, staged just 82 days before a presidentia1 election that he seemed certain to lose. "This," they insist, "is not a social revolution...
Written by one of Father Oswald's Franciscans, Passion on Paradise Street concerns a vicar who pays an unaccustomed call on a nonchurchgoing family and is rudely rebuffed. Both the vicar and the head of the family die, and after death bicker bitterly about why they did not get along. Then the first scene is played over, this time showing the joy and harmony that result when the family welcomes the vicar...
...issuing of the joint committee findings follows years of deep questioning of the whole "bicker" system--through which sophomores are hastily picked for membership in the 17 plush undergraduate eating clubs that line Prospect Street. The alumni-controlled club system, with its strong hold on undergraduate life, maintained by a monopoly over upperclass social and dining facilities, has been criticized as an island of outside interference within the University...