Word: percent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...club committee feel that it is the responsibility of a club to take a quota proportionate to its size, and the size of the entire eligible student body. If every club did this, according to exponents of the compromise plan, the total number of students accepted would be 100 percent, while the clubs could at the same time have the right to choose whom they wish within that quota...
...history of the imposse begins in 1940, when Dean Gauss created an 18th club to absorb the 10 percent that wasn't making the grade at the time. Gateway, as it turned out, wasn't such a bad club after all, and for two years, until the first war class of 1942, virtually 100 percent of the college were clubmen...
Dean Gauss left during the war. Returning students were mixed up in potpourri of various classes following the war, and few felt like spending the valuable time in working out what to do with 10 percent. Gateway's clubhouse had been taken over for some temporary housing, and before anyone realized it, there were only 17 clubs again. The result was over-crowding, and generally un-luxurious condition in the clubs through the fall...
Many claim that it was in revolt of these crowded conditions, others bluntly allege that the class of 1951 was younger and somewhat set off from the classes ahead-but whatever the case, only 86.9 percent of the sophomore class was asked to join clubs during last February's bicker. Of all eligibles, a total of only 80.3 percent made the grade...
...announced his disappointment when the figures were tabulated, and he was joined in his lament by the Princetonian and officials of the University. The "Prince," in its next day's editorial, labeled the returns a "Club Flub," adding that it came as a real jolt to note that "13 percent of the first class to be admitted under the broadened regional admissions system should be refused or ignored membership in the clubs." At that time, one out of every five students belonged to no club, a figure obviously too high assuming the acceptance of the club system in the first...