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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphian Society, Princeton University's 105-year-old campus religious organization, conducts religious services and courses of study, engages in charity and mission work, offers membership and the opportunity for good deeds to any man on the campus. Privately it does admirable, devout things in a quiet, effective way. Publicly it has achieved quite a different reputation. Several years ago the Philadelphian Society got itself mixed up with the lurid cult of Buchmanism, which encourages its adherents, of both sexes, to achieve spiritual relief by blurting out their sex histories at weekend "house parties" (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). This...
Excerpts of Little impressions, interpretations and criticisms of campus fauna and their problems...
...many alert and progressive educators the fraternities stand today in a very serious and weak position. So far have they failed to cooperate or to live up to their possibilities and ideals that ... the fraternity has frequently been the most powerful organ-ized source of moral misbehavior on the campus...
Fence rushes, cap burnings, maypoles, class dinners and other pleasantries and exchanges between freshmen and sophomores have long constituted an integral part of the campus scene at practically every college in the land, with the possible indifferent exception of Harvard, where such juvenile foolishness has never obtained, but where private enterprise on the part of undergraduates has annually inaugurated minor breaches of the academic peace. Up to four years ago the freshman-sophomore fence rush at Yale was as much of an institution as Derby Day, and the only blot on the otherwise fair record of the class...
...town is like a hospital campus. No street cars break the quiet; no clanging noises disturb the peace. Silent busses slip about the streets. No factory whistles shriek. It is a town of healing, charity, repose...