Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...intention of all this, Goheen observed, is to "provide the advantage of a closed interconnection between social and academic life than now often pertains." Princeton should also furnish "social and dining arrangements in close relation to living quarters.' Which is a pretty good pocket description of the House system...
...reasons for and advantages of the House system are submerged and taken for granted in Cambridge, but in Princeton there is genuine need to bring together the social and academic life, or rather to bring some academic life into the social world. And because of the clubs, it appears desirable to bring closer together also the dining hall and the bedroom...
Anthony Neville, in an article in the Princeton Alumni Bulletin has described it well...
...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 for putting up girls over the big football and spring weekends...