Word: bickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fill the 300 available spaces, Lippincott will invite three groups to apply: (1) upperclassmen now affiliated with Woodrow Wilson Lodge (an eating facutly outside of the club system and the Bicker); (2) other upperclassmen who, though club members, may be roommates of Lodge members; and (3) a number of sophomores, first priority being given to non-club members...
According to preliminary plans, the quad rooms will be attractive, and its other facilities equally comfortable. It will not be surprising if a fairly large group of sophomores this spring decide that Bicker is not for them, that they will "go to the quad...
...sorry for the brilliant, devoted, courageous Lewis Strauss, whose 40 years of public service the U.S. Senate has rewarded with humiliation and defeat [June 29]. But I am sorrier for the U.S. Have the once honorable members of this once august body nothing better to do than bicker and quibble over the appointments of proven statesmen...
...moviemakers picked it principally because it offered opportunities for sensationalism. Nevertheless, the film displays an attitude toward sex that is more wholesome than the merely sniggering spirit that prevails in many a movie; and for those who can stand the straight talk, it provides a memorable exhibition of legal bicker and dicker, infight and outrage...
Meanwhile, sixteen of the clubs look reasonably healthy for the coming year. Only Prospect, the co-operative club that figured so prominently in last year's controversy, seems destined to collapse. It again held an open Bicker, allowing anyone who was interested to sign up, and attracted only four sophomores; it is extremely doubtful that it can survive with so small a sophomore "section." Prospect's difficulty is that its philosophy of non-selectivity is incompatible6LODGE MEMBERS chat during dinner hour. While most sophomores ate hurriedly and thought of nothing but Bicker last week, men in Wilson seemed calm...