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...this time a year ago, 23 Princeton sophomores--15 of them Jewish--failed to gain admission to undergraduate eating clubs, and set off a wave of rancorous controversy and unfavorable publicity that rocked the Princeton community for several months. Now, just a year later, Bicker, the election period for the eating clubs, has been completed as smoothly as anyone can remember. There has been no "cage" on the back porch of Ivy Club, no unhappy group of "one hundred percenters", no charges of religious discrimination...
David J. Callard, chairman of the Interclub Committee, credited the success of Bicker this year to the "efforts of many people, especially the Sophomore Bicker committee and the sophomore class" and to the clubs' "awareness of their responsibility to the university...
PRINCETON, N.J.--The achievement Saturday night of a "natural one hundred per cent" brought to a successful conclusion Princeton's quietest, calmest Bicker in several years...
These dealings went on yesterday afternoon in informal Bicker at Holder Court, and continued last night as the club committees made their final visits to sophomores' rooms. This afternoon Holder Court will again be the scene of the informal Bicker and the sophomores will sign up at the clubs of their choice tonight, starting...
Those still without bids tonight at 10 p.m. will be classified as "hundred percenters." Bicker officials hope that there will be no one in this category and that, if there are some, they will be absorbed amicably by the various clubs. It has been reported that the 16 clubs Bickering have agreed to accept one "hundred percenter" each, if the number stays below...