Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...M.I.T., Princeton, and Yale ranked second, third, and fourth respectively in the estimation of the 764 parents who answered the poll. The College received 17.7 per cent of the first-place votes, more than twice as many as runner-up M.I.T...
...this time a year ago, 23 Princeton sophomores--15 of them Jewish--failed to gain admission to undergraduate eating clubs, and set off a wave of rancorous controversy and unfavorable publicity that rocked the Princeton community for several months. Now, just a year later, Bicker, the election period for the eating clubs, has been completed as smoothly as anyone can remember. There has been no "cage" on the back porch of Ivy Club, no unhappy group of "one hundred percenters", no charges of religious discrimination...
...situation at Princeton has changed in the past year--it has changed enough for people there to adopt an attitude of cautious optimism, but not enough for critics of the club system to believe that Bicker represents anything but an extremely undesirable system. For, while last February's fiasco may well have overemphasized certain aspects of the Bicker problem, the current superficial success cannot help obscuring the many remaining defects...
...distinction is certainly marked during Bicker, and it probably holds a good deal of truth the rest of the year. The charge of "anti-intellectualism on the Street" is one that finds increasing currency at Princeton. Professor James Ward Smith of the Philosophy Department, in an article for The Daily Princetonian, stated the case for those who reject not the club system but what the club system now does...
...faculty fellows" to become a kind of honorary member. By contrast, only two or three of the seventeen clubs have any "intellectual activities;" one of these, Cloister Inn, has invited Professor Stephen Bailey of the Politics Department to a discussion next week, but cases like this are sparse, and Princeton's clubs are a long way from the frequent speeches, panels and discussion that characterize Harvard Houses...