Word: kritzeck
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...Junior Fellow at Harvard has become has been a guinea pig in a current drive to reform Princeton's small, select graduate school. James A. Kritzeck, fellow in Oriental History and resident member of Dunster House, in the past two weeks has become an unnamed hero to 130 Princeton graduate students and a profanely-named pain in the neck to a host of Princeton deans...
Under special circumstances--he was less than 19 when he entered the Graduate College after receiving his B.A. from the University of Minnesota--Kritzeck made many undergraduate friends and was elected to membership in an undergraduate sating club. He wasn't too enthusiastic about living in the Graduate College--"It has some of the aspects of an Old folks' Home"--and so in 1951 he asked the dean of the school to be allowed to room with two of his undergraduate friends in an undergraduate dormitory...
...received the letter reprinted above. Eventually, by appealing to a more powerful dean, Kritzeck had his request granted, but all last year the letter was displayed in a prominent place in his room. A reporter from the "Daily Princetonian" saw it there and, with assistance and instigation from Kritzeck, began working on an expose of the school which was printed in three parts two weeks...
...Princetonian's strongest pieces of evidence in its demand for better undergraduate graduate relations was the letter from Dean Thorpe to Kritzeck, which it ran prominently on the front page. Kritzeck's name was blacked-out but the deans know who wrote if and are now fuming at him for releasing the letter to the Princetonian. At the same time a group of graduate students are getting up a petition asking to be allowed to room in the undergraduate dorms...
...Says Kritzeck "I'm being need by file Princetonian but I'm being used willingly...