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...year 1932-33, the most pressing problem of the House Plan had become that of assigning students to Houses. A Central Committee, headed by Dean Hanford, had been set-up to secure an equal intermingling of all seven units, but the Student Council in its first survey of the plan in 1933 reported that negotiations between freshmen and House representatives had proved unsatisfactory...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Houses: Seven Dwarfs By The Charles? | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, long a proponent of improved facilities, yesterday called the present separate building set-up "antiquated" and asserted that there is a "desperate need for improved facilities...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Cherington Group Asks New Central Infirmary | 2/18/1954 | See Source »

Under the present reception set-up, the Key assigns one member of its Athletic Committee to each varsity team in season. His job is to meet a visiting squad, provide for its welfare, and cooperate with the team's manager wherever possible...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: Key, Team Managers Plan Revision in Reception Duties | 2/18/1954 | See Source »

...little but hollow bows to the conventions of comedy since the two leads hardly need each other to sustain the humor. This is no routinely funny picture with a comedian flipping clever lines at a straight man. Almost every speech is self contained with a built-in combination set-up and punch line. The effect is marvelous, if exhausting...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: His Gal Friday | 1/5/1954 | See Source »

...visiting Princeton as the guest of an upperclassman is bound to be favorably impressed with the social set-up. The eating clubs that line Prospect Street are an impressive tribute to good fellowship. Inside, groups of a hundred or less men take their meals and their leisure in the gracious atmosphere of leather easy chairs and tasteful decorations. Here they entertain dates, shoot pool and bull, hold weekend dances and special parties. In short, excepting the fact that they do not live there, clubs are the social centers for juniors and seniors at Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen and Sophomores Lack Social Focus | 11/7/1953 | See Source »

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