Word: club
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another possible source of funds may be the Glee Club Foundation. Although the foundation, composed of club alumni, normally supports activities such as training young musicians, Goodhue said they might contribute "a small part of the money,"--possibly...
Inside the clubs, the Princeton men sit at round tables and are served their vegetable soup by Negro servants in white coats and black bow ties. A servant calls a club man "Mr. Bradley," and a club man calls a servant "Thomas." After dinner, the club men retire to their walnut-panelled parlor to talk, smoke cigars and sip coffee. Then they wander off to the billiard tables downstairs or to the studies and library upstairs. Everything is refined and muted and comfortable...
...against Bicker failed. The great monolith was too entrenched. A group of ten of the biggest men on campus got together and tried to budge it. They included the president of the Undergraduate Council, the chairman of the Daily Princetonian, the president of the Orange Key Society, five other club members and the secretary-treasurer of the class of 1969. It didn't take them long to find out that the club system with its 90 years of tradition was not about to be moved...
Inevitably, someone cries, someone gets irreparably hurt. On Open House night, everyone but the 30 or 40 who don't have bids yet boozes it up happily. It can be a very bad scene. Locked away in a room in one of the clubs, the members of the sophomore Bicker committee (top sophomore class members) and the Bicker, chairman from all the clubs get together to try to put everyone still bidless in some club. One Colonial man, who was a member of the sophomore committee last year called it "a very terrible thing. People were just casually trading...
...idea is to achieve 100 per cent Bicker -- everyone who signs up for Bicker is supposed to get into a club. Last year only one Princeton man didn't make it. He seemed resigned to his fate. He had effectively rejected the system and even developed his own rational. "The clubs strike me as being an escape hatch, as being void of any kind of reality. The idea of being buddy-buddy just bothers me," he said...