Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Local womanhood now consists of very rich girls and very poor girls. Intermediate social levels occasionally appear on the Princeton campus, causing students to complain, "I can see they're there, but damned if I know where they come from...
...years after Princeton first engaged Rutgers in a friendly game of "football," a small group of her students decided to form a private social group. Taking over a brick and stone building on Prospect Avenue, they established Ivy Club...
Students, apparently still unsatisfied with a ruling which had abolished fraternities in 1855, watched Ivy grow and decided that its organizers "had something." Tiger, Cap and Gown, and other social groups were soon organized, and by 1900, Prospect Street had become tabbed "The Street," and almost half the college belonged to clubs...
...clubs actually have much to offer materially. In a college located in a small town, they supply almost 100 percent of the student's social activities. Meals run at about $1650 to $1750 a week, are served by waitresses on linen table cloths, and are tastier than those served in many restaurants. Inter-club sports are amazingly organized, with the annual trophy one of the most highly respected honors for a club to possess. Inter-club dances also afford entertainment in a town that boasts not one nightclub. Over-night accommodations for visiting girls are also arranged in the clubhouse...
...Daily Princetonian, Dean Godolphin, and an estimated 75 percent of the college finds the omission of 10 percent of the student body "unfair and impossible"-even more so in a system admittedly vital to the social life of a Princeton...