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Money is the big problem now. Alumni have money to give but they hold back, first of all because the majority of them don't want any alternative to the club system, no matter how "meaningful" President Goheen says it is; secondly, potential contributors who are interested don't like the idea that the plans for the quad are a major step out of the 'Princeton pattern,' which they consider unquie and worthy of being preserved...
...proposed new quadrangle differs sharply on a number of counts from the Houses," President Goheen said. "For instance, the resident faculty will have neither curricular nor disciplinary responsibility for the resident students; nor will the social life of the residents be nearly as much self-contained...
President Goheen gave some reasons in defense of the radical plan of sophomore inclusion for meals and recreation. He observed that, by including them "you reduce the isolation non-club upperclassmen might feel if the only other residents were club upperclassmen; you insure a more representative cross-section of interests and reduce the possibility of the social-dining facilities becoming a haven for any one group; you expose potential new members in the sophomore class to the possibilities inherent in the quadrangle and increase the chances for building a voluntary and satisfied upperclass membership...
Robert Francis Goheen, president of Princeton Litt.D...
...just such a goal that Wilson campaigned for, decades before President Lowell was to demand it in Cambridge. And the same elements which finally defeated him in 1908 would be sure to oppose vigorously any similar move by President Goheen to abolish the clubs fifty years later...