Word: classmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...felt like playing squash. We went down to the University Squash Courts and were surprised to find a sign, "closed Saturday." Then we walked up to Hemenway, where we were told that the courts there were open only to members of the freshman and varsity teams. Now, the upper-classmen presumably have their own courts in the Houses; but are there enough? And this still leaves us Freshmen out in the cold...
Auditions for the student entertainment, which will make up most of the program, will be held in the Union Monday for freshmen and Tuesday for upper-classmen...
...come until the junior year. The first year is especially grim. For most new men, added to the discomfort of adjusting to a new way of life are many social restrictions. Meals in the Commons are hectic and crowded, there is no place for fairly large groups of lower classmen to get together informally, and there are few opportunities to meet women...
Even when a freshman does have a date in Princeton, it is hedged with more restrictions. The woman must leave his room by seven. After that hour, no place to entertain a woman in Princeton is open to non-club lower classmen. For the past two years there has been a severe crack-down on drinking by minors, so the local night spots are closed...
...These groups that with each man, evaluating his potentialities as a mess-mate, conversationalist and fellow club man. Then the clubs make their bids. The more talented and popular students have a problem in deciding which of the many bids that they receive to accept. Their less socially desirable classmen also have a problem. Under the 100 per cent agreement, started in 1950, every man receives at least one bid, but it may be from a club that does not interest him at all. After the clubs have bid the choice candidates, they parcel out the remainder without much regard...