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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The 100 Percenters | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The 100 Percenters | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: End of the 84th | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: The Cradle Song | 8/2/1956 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: THE PROBLEM OF OLD AGE | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

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