Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This pint-sized merry-making is reduced even further for freshmen and sophomores, who aren't mature enough to join a club. For them there is nothing but a gymnasium dance and an intown movie. Last week underclassmen queued up for tickets to a "Prince-Tiger" dance: the office opened at 2 p.m.; the only people who got tickets had been in line since before noon...
...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...
...Blair Arch the rally crowd hears speeches every week from a whole first team-offensive or defensive. After last week's Rutgers parade, students cheered talks by eleven players and then demanded informal addresses from the sister of the offensive quarterback and the date of the second-string offensive wingback...
University officials do more than tolerate rah-rah-ism: last week Assistant Dean Lippincott told the Crimson "We'd do anything to get a more cohesive group." As an example, Princeton has never riveted down the clapper to the Nassaue Hall bell, which tradition decrees must be stolen annually by the freshman class. The class of '50 ran off with 40 clappers in their year, and each time the University bought a new one and tied it half-heartedly in place...
...unique thing in a Princeton education inpreceptorial, which would be a cross between section meetings and tutorial except for the fact that it works. Almost all courses are given in two lectures and one six-man preceptorial per week, or sometimes the other way around...