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...turned out that, entirely unbeknownst to the news editors, the Bee rented space from The Crimson for an evening of cocktails and dancing...
Turns out the club had grown to about 33 members. My initial non-Bee, Deep Throatesque source ("an Eliot resident familiar with the club") had even joined. That night, the women of grace thundered over the newsroom, dancing with their tuxedoed men to the Material Girl...
This is all antithetical to the Bee. They thrive on not talking. That's the point. They don't want to keep their club a total secret (Honey East lists the club on the resume that she submitted to a Jackson, Mississippi beauty pageant), but they're not truly the elite until they shut people out. Beauty pageants, cocktail parties, a stir of rumors along the Eliot corridors--this sort of publicity is good...
...newspaper articles are bad. A friend of mine who made it into the Bee told me a long while ago that she would never have her name in a paper, with the exception of her wedding. She shuddered at the thought of being named anywhere but the society pages...
...Bee members' elitism, of course, is not as odious as Lowell's. This is not the early 20th century, and I'm certainly not the impoverished, socially excluded newspaper hack. We're all students at a top college with a wide array of choices. Still, we have very different ways of looking at the world...