Word: clubmen
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...story that Eliot is a clubmen's House is today disproved by the facts which show about the same percentage of that type in the House as in the resident College as a whole...
...them from exercising true independence of action, but which also set them apart from and make enemies of those who do follow criteria of justice and reason. The elimination of these discriminatory clauses voluntarily would make it possible for justice and reason to be exercised by the clubs and clubmen...
...that followed was long and bitter ("Must a gentleman eat with a mucker?" cried the clubmen). In the end, Ivy, Cap and Gown, and the rest of the clubs continued to flourish for the benefit of juniors and seniors who as sophomores had been lucky enough to get elected...
Some student and graduate clubmen howled in protest. The sophomores were infringing upon the clubs' "basic right of selectivity." But there were plenty of other clubmen who disagreed: 217 said they would themselves resign unless the sophomores had their way. By week's end, the sophomores seemed to be winning the battle that Woodrow Wilson lost. Said Chairman William Wallace of the Undergraduate Interclub Committee: "The clubs will try their best to fit their election machinery to the sophomore...
...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...