Word: club
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Three one-act plays written by members of English 47 have been selected for the annual spring production of the Dramatic Club. They will be read at the open meeting of the club in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, tonight at 7.30 o'clock...
...years of college, instead of having class unity, each class has 17 different units with different identities; there is but little attempt on the part of one unit to understand another. The energy that ought to be expended in making a greater Princeton is spent in promoting a better club section for the next year...
...months ago civil strife broke out in the social ranks at Princeton. An influential group of sophomores announced that they would not accept invitations to the senior societies and declared war on the entire club system as extravagant, demoralizing and undemocratic. Since then more than seventy of their classmates have taken the same stand. On last Wednesday the struggle entered a new phase, when seven prominent seniors resigned from their clubs and joined the insurgent sophomores, as an open and vigorous protest against the system which they could not reform from the inside...
There seems to be no question that the sophomores are attacking a real evil. The club system, says the Daily Princetonian, has "limited fellowship in a way which is not only exceedingly harmful to the individual, but which also exercises a pernicious effect upon the university's endeavor to turn out undergraduates who shall be best fitted for positions of honor and responsibility in the nation." According to the resigning seniors the system has "discouraged individuality of thought," "created a set of artificial standards," and "diverted the finances, energy and attention of both graduates and undergraduates from the curriculum...
...outsider it seems unfortunate that such a radical course should be necessary. The experience of American universities has been that clubs are inevitable, that the natural tendency of individuals is to consolidate into small, close-knit groups. When the nature of these groups destroys the possibility of fellowship, they should be modified, but to end their existence entirely opposes the dictates of normal human instincts If possible, it seems far healthier that the small club groups should continue to exist side by side with the broader opportunities for common fellowship...