Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visiting Princeton as the guest of an upperclassman is bound to be favorably impressed with the social set-up. The eating clubs that line Prospect Street are an impressive tribute to good fellowship. Inside, groups of a hundred or less men take their meals and their leisure in the gracious atmosphere of leather easy chairs and tasteful decorations. Here they entertain dates, shoot pool and bull, hold weekend dances and special parties. In short, excepting the fact that they do not live there, clubs are the social centers for juniors and seniors at Princeton...
Whether it is due to class fellowship, compulsory chapel, or, most likely, to early indoctrination into the tradition, Princeton functions with efficiency and mutual trust under the honor system. Princetonians are proud of the success of the system in examinations...
Harman got a music fellowship after graduating in 1940, and stayed on at Princeton. Somewhat to his own surprise, he soon found himself in a civilian pilot training course. "Other guys," he explains, "were taking the course who didn't seem particularly inclined that way either, so I tried it." His teacher, a former truck driver, liked to fly the Waco trainers upside down, and the "first thing I noticed was that my cigarettes in my jacket pocket were falling out and slipping past my face...
...Whenever Columbia and Harvard get together we are in the fellowship of ancient, venerable, and distinguished universities," said Pusey. He went on, also mildly, to hope that Columbia might not be victorious...
...council, which began shortly after World War I (and publishes the quarterly review Foreign Affairs), is a nonprofit institution devoted to research and study of the international aspects of American political and economic problems. The purpose of the fellowship is to "help correspondents to increase their competence to report and interpret events abroad ... to give men who have been preoccupied with meeting deadlines an opportunity to broaden their perspective by means of a coordinated program of reading, study and informal discussion." Richardson will study at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, and commute to New York...