Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...principle on which Princeton so bravely stands each year is the principle that "a guy has a right to choose the guys he wants to juice with, by Christ." Sometimes, however, there are people who don't, for various reasons, make the grade. Last year these unfortunates went to Prospect Club, a cooperative eating society of relatively minor social status. This year, even Prospect has decided to be more exclusive. It will take anybody, but it won't take them at the last minute, as it did previously...
Princeton's Prospect Club has voted to continue last year's controversial "open" Bicker policy. Tighter specifications are expected to eliminate the confusion which resulted last year from an overflow of "hundred per centers...
Again opening its doors to all sophomores who wish to become members, Prospect has added the stipulation that declaration to join must be made before a certain hour on Open House night, the climax of the Bicker period. In last year's Bicker, Prospect kept its books open even after all men "in trouble" had refused its bids, in order to accommodate leftover candidates from other clubs...
Since the new Prospect specifications mean less assurance that all who want to may join a club, the Bicker's governing body planned a meeting to re-define "100 per cent...
...which France. Germany, Italy and Benelux will launch on New Year's Day. From the start, the British refused to join the Common Market on the ground that they could not abandon their present intricate system of Commonwealth tariff preferences. At the same time, British industry dreaded the prospect of finding its products excluded from the Common Market. As a halfway house, Harold Macmillan two years ago plumped for a 17-nation European Free Trade Area to supplement the Common Market. The F.T.A. would permit free exchange of industrial products between member nations, but, unlike the Common Market...