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...that Easter has come and gone, it’s seersucker season. And for some, seersucker represents the worst of Harvard: haughty attitude and old boys?? (read: final) clubs. For others, it’s a sign of spring and of garden parties. For me, it represents neither and that’s probably why I like it. I bought my first and only seersucker blazer in Canada at a thrift shop on summer break after freshman year. It was in mint condition, the right size, and the perfect price ($10). Canada is an odd locale for seersucker...
...final club members do hail from wealthy backgrounds and private schooling. Yet, there are also many members who fall into socioeconomic brackets closer to the middle. Many final clubs provide financial aid for members who qualify. Furthermore, it is hasty to write off all club members as spoiled boys??many of them are as down-to-earth as their non-club counterparts. One final club president told me recently that he plans for his club to undertake community service projects this year...
...family is small; my school was positively tiny. I graduated with the same group of 60 that I started with, give or take a few casualties. (It was a boys?? school. There were casualties...
...spent in refugee camps...to my encounters with vibrant Western cultures.” Released two years after Colin Powell decided to crown the Darfur conflict with the term genocide, Eggers’ book is a story not of Darfur but of one of the thousands of Lost Boys??a term that, to many, has only some vague connection with both Sudan and “Peter Pan.” A 475-page chronicle of a little-known life begs for a captivating beginning, and Eggers delivers just that. Deng’s story begins in Atlanta...
...those four boys??one of whom also needs to learn how to eat properly—and anyone else who has made a point of mocking the True Love Revolution, find something better to do with your time than needlessly make fun of someone’s lifestyle...