Word: clubmen
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There is little purpose in attempting to establish an Adams type. Figures show it to be a scholarly House, but there is a sizable athletic representation. Neither is there geographical predominance from Brooklyn, Boston, or Battle Creek, and there is a good distribution of clubmen, prep school alumni, and high school graduates...
...less select clubs are getting tired of having the responsibility for accepting the less desirable candidates while the big prestige clubs refuse to admit any one who does not measure up to their standards. While officials deny that there is any hierarchy of club prestige, lists compiled by clubmen, when asked to name the most prominent clubs are amazingly similar. The result is that some men, each year, withdraw their candidacy for club membership when all they receive is a single bid from a third rate organization that means nothing to them. So, the 100 per cent is illusory. Actually...
There are companions to suit any whim: athletes, scholars, clubmen, dilletantes, and worried pre-meds...
Meanwhile Dean Gauss created an 18th club to absorb the 10 percent that weren't making the grade at the time. Gateway turned out to be not such a bad club after all, and until the first war class of 1942 almost 100 percent of the college were clubmen...
...current stereotype pictures Eliot as the den of the clubmen, practically a club in itself. Like most stereotypes, this one is inaccurate; a better composite of the Mastodon would include elements of the social, the athletic, the scholarly, the classical, and the indifferent...