Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fairbank argued that Taiwan offered the main opportunity for "trying to understand the Chinese world." The help of a strong Taiwan was, Fairbank urged, necessary to "defend ourselves in the idea-logical cold...
Several Radcliffe students last night expressed themselves in favor of the idea. "I would like to go," said one, "because European boys are so much easier to lead than Harvard men. And they cheer louder, too." Another added that European cheerleading is "much more continental and less athletic. Over there," she said, "a cheerleader is a lady of refinement and not a circus acrobat...
...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...
...University's idea to compete with the clubs on their own grounds and make the quads so attractive to the entering sophomores that they will decide against entering a club and live in the facility for three years. Besides the issues of architectural beauty and the tradition of gentility which the clubs possess, there is the important issue at Princeton of the entertainment of lady guests. Nearly all the clubs have elegant dining rooms and the appropriate ballrooms, sitting rooms and sun decks, and their top floors are a kind of of female dormitory with thirty or forty beds...
When the motion was reintroduced, it passed unanimously.... Walking back to his office, Briggs felt mildly elated. Perhaps Hall and Ford had had a good idea after all. Certainly it did the department no harm for the administration and even the public to know they wished to honor one to whom honor...