Word: socialize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Also "A social village in the heart of the Princeton campus, a kind of Harvard Square without bookstores, is what these gentlemen sorely lack," he said...
Next fall, as part of its $53 million Program, Princeton will open its first "social quadrangle"--a block-square complex of five dormitories (housing from 270 to 300 students), a central dining hall, library and social facility (in place of the traditional eating clubs). Although it is limited in size, the quad represents a significant departure from the Princeton tradition of dormitories and private eating clubs...
...social privileges at the quadrangle, says Lippincott, will be "roughly comparable to those on Prospect Street." While membership in the new quad requires only an application to the Dean's Office, admission to an eating club, however, is through a secret election. But Lippincott insists that Princeton undergraduates do not regard any group as "second-class citizens, or a group set apart." Woodrow Wilson Lodge contains a "damn good, sound cross-sectional group," he says...
...Just as eating clubs have their graduate boards of governors," Lippincott says, "the quad will have the administration as its overseer." But, he adds, the internal planning of social activities at the quad will be up to its members...
Stressing the failure of the present rules "to fulfill the social-emotional needs of a weekend oriented dating pattern," the report itemizes statistics showing that only 5.5 per cent of polled under graduates use the afternoon hours more than three times a week...