Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposed new quadrangle differs sharply on a number of counts from the Houses," President Goheen said. "For instance, the resident faculty will have neither curricular nor disciplinary responsibility for the resident students; nor will the social life of the residents be nearly as much self-contained...
...radical plan of sophomore inclusion for meals and recreation. He observed that, by including them "you reduce the isolation non-club upperclassmen might feel if the only other residents were club upperclassmen; you insure a more representative cross-section of interests and reduce the possibility of the social-dining facilities becoming a haven for any one group; you expose potential new members in the sophomore class to the possibilities inherent in the quadrangle and increase the chances for building a voluntary and satisfied upperclass membership...
...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...
...paper plans to emphasize "feature articles which concern not only the College but the entire University." Attention will be focused "on the major trends and problems in the academic and social life" of Radcliffe and Harvard, the News said...