Word: bickers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this year, before Bicker ever got under way, what Dean of Students William D'O. Lippincott has termed "a surprisingly large number" rejected the club system and Bicker to join the the Lodge. The treasurer of the sophomore class, Darwin S. Labarthe, was among the first to take the step; his presence, and that of other men whose success at Bicker was more or less assured, made the Lodge much more than a dumping ground for club rejects (for people with "green skin and three heads," as Labarthe put it). This spontaneous action of about forty sophomores had made...
...distinction is certainly marked during Bicker, and it probably holds a good deal of truth the rest of the year. The charge of "anti-intellectualism on the Street" is one that finds increasing currency at Princeton. Professor James Ward Smith of the Philosophy Department, in an article for The Daily Princetonian, stated the case for those who reject not the club system but what the club system now does...
...time it has grown--with its sudden spurt this winter--to equal most of the clubs, and promises to become still larger. There are more than fifty sophomores in the Lodge now--a number greater than sophomore "sections" of all but one club; most of these fifty joined before Bicker started, not, according to Dean Lippincott, out of fear of Bicker, but purely by choice and from a feeling that the alternative of the Lodge is what they wanted...
...establishment of Wilson Lodge in 1956 was a response to the increasingly disturbing tension inherent in the Bicker system. Bicker was, and is, torn between two mutually exclusive first principles--selectivity ("A guy's got the right to choose the fellows he wants to eat with") and 100% ("Every sophomore participating in Bicker must get a bid to a club"). The creation of a "meaningful alternative" to club membership, in the words of President Goheen, makes the move to Prospect Street a matter of "voluntary choice, not herd compulsion...
What effect Wilson Lodge has had on the club system and on Bicker is hard to gauge. Its new popularity is surely an important development, both eliminating compulsion toward club membership and providing a relatively attractive recourse for Bicker's rejects. Part (but only part) of Wilson's growth may be traced to the announcement last spring of plans for a new Dormitory Quadrangle to replace Wilson Lodge. It will be a modern, Houselike set of structures, with dormitory space for 200 and eating and social facilities...