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...clubs. The tradition has become a not-so-illustrious chapter in the university's illustrious past--many clubs are no longer exclusive, and some students entirely reject the clubs. A recent court decision requiring the two remaining all-male clubs to admit women is the final blow to this bastion of the old boy network...
...killed along with three Ulster / policemen in a land mine explosion in County Armagh. Four days earlier a bomb exploded at the London Stock Exchange, causing considerable damage. In June eight people were wounded when a similar device went off in the Carlton Club, a Conservative Party bastion near London's St. James's Palace. In May two Australian lawyers were gunned down in the town square in Roermond, in the Netherlands, apparently mistaken for off-duty British soldiers...
...besieging Paris. By now it seemed clear to the German princes who had followed Prussia into the war that their future lay in a united Germany under Prussian leadership. Bismarck artfully arranged to have William crowned Kaiser (Caesar) in January of 1871 in the palace of Versailles, that bastion of the French kings, while the hungry citizens of nearby Paris endured the Prussian siege...
...result, Harvard still has investments in South Africa. Harvard still tenures few faculty from the inside. And Harvard is still a bastion of white male aristocracy--especially in its faculty ranks...
...feeling also may say, "Was this my slice of Cambridge?" The Club's peculiarly anachronistic view of what Cambridge and college represent to many undergraduates reflects a pervasive ambiguity about Harvard. It is part citadel of learning, part bastion of snobbery; part university, part national power center...