Word: club
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history of the imposse begins in 1940, when Dean Gauss created an 18th club to absorb the 10 percent that wasn't making the grade at the time. Gateway, as it turned out, wasn't such a bad club after all, and for two years, until the first war class of 1942, virtually 100 percent of the college were clubmen...
...current interclub chairman immediately announced his disappointment when the figures were tabulated, and he was joined in his lament by the Princetonian and officials of the University. The "Prince," in its next day's editorial, labeled the returns a "Club Flub," adding that it came as a real jolt to note that "13 percent of the first class to be admitted under the broadened regional admissions system should be refused or ignored membership in the clubs." At that time, one out of every five students belonged to no club, a figure obviously too high assuming the acceptance of the club...
versity and through the first fall bicker ever held, this term have swollen the total number of club-members...
...Princeton continues to fight for 100 percent club membership, those clubs wishing to keep their numbers at a hand-picked minority argue that they just haven't got room for any more members. True as it is that the average club has doubled in size before the war, and now averages about 90 members, there are holes in this arguments. Most members will individually admit that every club could manager to survive by absorbing its share of the unelected students, an average of ten apiece, without seriously affecting its dining hall service or over-crowding its other facilities. And then...
...also means that Nassau men are shut off from the outside world and the politics and girls thereof. Princetonians are notoriously blase to national affairs-their only political club is a half-hearted Liberal Union-and girls are rarer on the campus than born-rimmed glasses...