Word: godolphin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Take 90 from 100, and you've got 10-exactly the percentage of upperclassmen that don't make the grade for membership at Princeton's 17 eating clubs. Now mix this somewhat unpleasant statistic with the good intentions of Dean Francis R. B. Godolphin an intelligent and righteous man toss in the disgruntled mumbling of the student press, and spice with at least at least a few changes of discrimination and unfairness from students and alumni; you'll find yourself with the same appetizing that new faces both the administration of Princeton and the Club members and alumni...
...Daily Princetonian, Dean Godolphin, and an estimated 75 percent of the college finds the omission of 10 percent of the student body "unfair and impossible"-even more so in a system admittedly vital to the social life of a Princeton...
...Dean Godolphin has stated his objective. He sees no solution to the problem other than the acceptance of the entire college into the clubs, an institutions he expects to last for quite some time. But as he points out, the jump from 90 to 100 percent should be accomplished all at once, and, of course, as soon as possible. Should the percentage increase only gradually, non-acceptance would soon prove harder for, say, four percent of the college than it now does for ten. Other theorists, far in the minority, propose that a 60-10 ration would be even better...
...decree, announced last Thursday, was accompanied by a letter of instruction from Dean Godolphin to the college proctors, instructing them to turn in the name of any student seen in public with liquor, if he doesn't cooperate in disposing...
...Godolphin School in Hammersmith, Irish Poet W. B. Yeats was known among his English classmates as "mad Yeats." The school, he wrote, "was an obscene bullying place, where a big boy would hit a small boy in the wind to see him double up, and where certain boys, too young for any emotion of sex, would sing the dirty songs of the streets...