Word: unwantedness
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When 605 Princeton sophomores signed the petition in 1949. they seemed to be striking a blow for democracy. For years Princeton's 17 private eating clubs, which President Woodrow Wilson tried to abolish, had been taking in the most desirable sophomores and leaving a small, unwanted minority out in...
Somehow it did not work out. During each bicker there always seemed to be about 15 boys whom the clubs could not decide about. Eventually, the outcasts all made a club-but only after the club presidents had met secretly to determine which of their organizations must make the awful...
The 84th Congress, in its second session, was an unwanted political child. It was born last January amid dire predictions that it would grow up as a ne'er-do-well in the broken election-year home of party-style Democracy and Republicanism. But it adjourned last week with...
The Cradle Song as a play has certain disadvantages. It is so unpretentious as to be unsuited to any production style less intimate than very small theater-in-the-round. In addition, it has virtually no plot. Playwrights Gregorio and Maria Martinez Sierra have merely chronicled two days eighteen years...
So far, according to the most vocal experts at Ann Arbor, medicine is not yet ready to do its full part. Gerontology and geriatrics* have not grown up enough. Said Dr. Edmund Vincent Cowdry, anatomist at St. Louis' Washington University: "The emphasis is going off youth and going on...