Word: club
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea continued to pick up supporters, and now, 70 years after Ivy Club's organizational meeting, a full 90 percent of the college is represented in 17 "eating" clubs...
...clubs actually have much to offer materially. In a college located in a small town, they supply almost 100 percent of the student's social activities. Meals run at about $1650 to $1750 a week, are served by waitresses on linen table cloths, and are tastier than those served in many restaurants. Inter-club sports are amazingly organized, with the annual trophy one of the most highly respected honors for a club to possess. Inter-club dances also afford entertainment in a town that boasts not one nightclub. Over-night accommodations for visiting girls are also arranged in the clubhouse...
This is followed by card days, two days in which the clubs must contact prospective members and see whether or not they will accept bids. Although many students have already committed themselves to a club by a verbal promise by this date, there is considerable changing of cards at this time. This means that a student receiving two or more cards turns in the unused ones to the president of the club whose bid he accepts. The president than rushes them back to a central office, which is constantly checked by runners from each organization. As soon as a club...
...most serious argument at present centers over determining the quota of a club. University officials and some members of the inter-club committee feel that it is the responsibility of a club to take a quota proportionate to its size, and the size of the entire eligible student body. If every club did this, according to exponents of the compromise plan, the total number of students accepted would be 100 percent, while the clubs could at the same time have the right to choose whom they wish within that quota...
Informed sources at Princeton claim that alumni and members of a minority of the clubs "will never agree to this system." The University has no actual right to step in and take action without unanimous approval of the new quota system and without unanimous approval of the inter-club committee, something that seems impossible at present. Hence the current stalemate...