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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These advocates of preserving the status quo generally fall under the membership of five or six of the older clubs, notably Ivy, Cap and Gown, Tiger, Colonial, Cottage, and possibly Charter. Not all the members of these clubs feel inclined to retain the present system, but most admit that that is their general stand...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Princeton Clubs Divided on Proposal to Open Membership to 100 Percent of Upper Classes | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...numbers at a hand-picked minority argue that they just haven't got room for any more members. True as it is that the average club has doubled in size before the war, and now averages about 90 members, there are holes in this arguments. Most members will individually admit that every club could manager to survive by absorbing its share of the unelected students, an average of ten apiece, without seriously affecting its dining hall service or over-crowding its other facilities. And then there are the other statistics that show only 32.1 percent of the eligible belonging...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Princeton Clubs Divided on Proposal to Open Membership to 100 Percent of Upper Classes | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

Pipe smoking has some drawbacks which even a 'Cliffedwelling faddist will admit to. Two of them bumped into a Boston Post reporter last spring. The astonished scribe was moved to comment, "The only thing that showed the girls still had their marbles was that they refused to divulge their names...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pipe This --- Gals Junk Coffin Nails . . . | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

...most Cambridge businessmen aren't especially alarmed. There are a number of factors which seemingly discount the Lever action. And if there is any pronounced economic slump in Cambridge, only small retail merchants, whose sales have been dropping, will admit...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...Baltimore churchmen did some hard thinking about the case and last week published a statement signed by 116 Protestant, Jewish and Quaker leaders. "In the tragedy that occurred in Carroll Park . . ." said the statement, "we see evidence of our common failure and sin. We humbly admit that part of the blame is ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Guilty Before God | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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