Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popularity of Wilson Lodge and the enthusiasm which greeted the plans for the new Quad represent a challenge to the club system. Opinions vary on how the clubs will meet it. One theory says that they will try to broaden themselves intellectually in order to compete with the alternative on its own terms; another says they will retreat into their social shell and let those with intellectual predilections go elsewhere--in this version, they will become much like the the Harvard clubs, small and selective...
...alternative of Woodrow Wilson Lodge, termed by President Robert F. Goheen an "important and promising" development, has been in existence little more than two years. In that time it has grown--with its sudden spurt this winter--to equal most of the clubs, and promises to become still larger. There are more than fifty sophomores in the Lodge now--a number greater than sophomore "sections" of all but one club; most of these fifty joined before Bicker started, not, according to Dean Lippincott, out of fear of Bicker, but purely by choice and from a feeling that the alternative...
...establishment of Wilson Lodge in 1956 was a response to the increasingly disturbing tension inherent in the Bicker system. Bicker was, and is, torn between two mutually exclusive first principles--selectivity ("A guy's got the right to choose the fellows he wants to eat with") and 100% ("Every sophomore participating in Bicker must get a bid to a club"). The creation of a "meaningful alternative" to club membership, in the words of President Goheen, makes the move to Prospect Street a matter of "voluntary choice, not herd compulsion...
What effect Wilson Lodge has had on the club system and on Bicker is hard to gauge. Its new popularity is surely an important development, both eliminating compulsion toward club membership and providing a relatively attractive recourse for Bicker's rejects. Part (but only part) of Wilson's growth may be traced to the announcement last spring of plans for a new Dormitory Quadrangle to replace Wilson Lodge. It will be a modern, Houselike set of structures, with dormitory space for 200 and eating and social facilities...
...significant fact about the new quad is that the University is committed to find space in the "alternative" for everyone who is interested. Wilson has already outgrown the part of Commons originally allotted to it, and another hall is now being converted for its use. Dean Lippincott says that if demand exceeds the space in the new Quad, more buildings will be built or existing space converted to meet the needs. It is conceivable that in the future--say in ten years--a majority of Princeton will be living in such Quad arrangements, though no-one is willing to hazard...