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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, sixteen of the clubs look reasonably healthy for the coming year. Only Prospect, the co-operative club that figured so prominently in last year's controversy, seems destined to collapse. It again held an open Bicker, allowing anyone who was interested to sign up, and attracted only four sophomores; it is extremely doubtful that it can survive with so small a sophomore "section." Prospect's difficulty is that its philosophy of non-selectivity is incompatible6LODGE MEMBERS chat during dinner hour. While most sophomores ate hurriedly and thought of nothing but Bicker last week, men in Wilson seemed calm...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Princeton Seeks a 'Meaningful Alternative' | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

Even as U.S. Dist. Judge John Paul issued a Feb. 18 desegregation order for the reopening of closed Warren High at Front Royal, the city of Alexandria, 50 miles to the east, held racially mixed classes in three schools for the first time...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Eisenhower Says Dulles Illness Will Not Halt Talks on Germany; Integration Proceeds in Virginia | 2/11/1959 | See Source »

...austere sensibilities. In the the lead article of its December, 1957, issue, the Times editorialized with scholarly ire, "The trouble arises at the present day because of the cleavage betwen 'popular' and 'serious' music, a cleavage unknown in earlier times." But the editor's revulsion could not be long held in check: "A certain kind of popular music is nowadays inevitably associated with the fetid atmosphere of a nightclub, dance hall or cabaret and its emphasis on cheap, moronic sexual allurement. But the service of the Holy Communion is, surely, something far removed from the idea of 'revelry by night...

Author: By Edgar Murray, | Title: A Twentieth Century Folk Mass | 2/10/1959 | See Source »

...white desert of the geographic South Pole, a house of worship was dedicated last week. Its congregation: the 17 men of the Deep Freeze IV outpost in Antarctica. The "Chapel of Our Faith" began when the outpost's recreation building, where religious services had been held, caved in under the weight of snow. Navy Petty Officer C. Norman Engel, 37, of Spring Lake. N.J., requested permission to build a chapel in its place out of spare lumber, and all members of the group worked at the project-painting, decorating, or just shoveling snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Church at the Pole | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...bloused top, narrow waist, padded hips; the Y with wide shoulders and a dizzying décolletage swooping down to the waist. Prices : about $300 for an evening dress, $120 for a daytime dress. The U.S. buyers, who had been wary of last year's styles and had held down buying, were stepping it up again. As Macy's Fashion Coordinator Marjorie Reich said:"Because the clothes are so wearable they'll sell thousands and thousands of a model. I don't think the collections could be better for America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: Return to Normalcy | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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