Word: bickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corner, on a busier street, sets a building simple as reality, and as unavoidable as 1959. That is Prospect Club, its name a wistful mark of its exclusion. Prospect has always been the poor club, the wonk co-op club without servants, but last year it held an open bicker so that the University might have a hundred per cent club membership, Prospect became the catalyst in a big change--the biggest in seventy-five years--in the Princeton formula. After Prospect threw itself open to all bids, a group of either contemptous or indignant sophomores refused to bicker...
...serious problem is the role of the genuinely non-Honors student in a College committed to the Honorable way of life. This is a role played, to extend an analogy, by the boy at Princeton in an artificial "100 per cent" Bicker. For the CEP, the problem is one of accomodating the intellectual, not the social, misfit...
John E. McNees '60 of Eliot House and Kansas City, Kansas, has been awarded the 1958 Dana Reed Prize for distinguished undergraduate writing, for his CRIMSON feature on "The Quest at Princeton for the Cocktail Soul," an essay on Bicker...
...article, published on February 21, was based on observations of this winter's Bicker, and was called by one judge, "a remarkable piece of social commentary,...handsomely written." Judges of this year's entries were Cass Canfield, chairman of the editorial board of Harper and Bros., novelist William Styron, and Meyer Berger, reporter on the New York Times...
Deeper insight than anyone has yet applied might reveal that the most unfortunate victims of Princeton's vicious Bicker process are not necessarily those scores of students who are dumped in undesirable organizations or left altogether out in the cold. Rather it is the hundreds who happily make the respectable and especially the most desirable clubs on the street. It is they who have consented without apparent compunctions to build their prestige, success, and social contentment on the hypocrisy, mendacity, inhumanity, servility, pettiness and sheer unreason upon which Princeton's club system and Bicker procedure are obviously reared...