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Based on highly scientific anthropological data (observations of final club social life and midday Yard interactions), I think Harvard is struggling to balance the old-school traditions of boat shoes and the Cape on the one hand, and its current attempts at diversity on the other. The student body has settled at a level of neo-prep, meaning that kids who wear the polos with the collars up may or may not be WASP-y lacrosse players who belong to the Fly. It’s hard to tell—a kind of hip New York attitude...
...turn of the 19th century, fashion dictates came from the college administration, not the Milan runways. For instance, undergraduates were instructed as to the proper type of outerwear: “coat must be of black-mixed, called also Oxford-mixed, single breasted, with a rolling cape square at the end, and with pocket flaps; waist reaching to the natural waist, with lapels of the same length; skirts reaching to the bend of the knee; three crows-feet, made of black silk cord on the lower part of the sleeve of a senior, two on that of a junior...
This laundry list of requirements is a far cry from the range of men’s fashions today. Then, the aim of proper dress was to avoid expulsion. But from the ashes of the “rolling cape square” rose a new class of stylish males, the precursors to today’s fashion plates and metrosexuals. Along with a mantra of fashion alpha male-ism, these early males were influenced by the traditional drive for perfection which already pervaded the athletic fields, music halls and classrooms of Old Harvard...
...turn our attention to the larger, statewide issues of energy security and climate change. Proponents of renewable energy in the Commonwealth are fighting an uphill battle to capture even a negligible portion of the market share for renewables. A large offshore wind farm has been proposed for Cape Cod, for instance. The proposal could generate large amounts of renewable energy at competitive prices, if only local residents could stand the sight of windmills in their ocean views. We strongly support the development of wind power in Cape Cod and sincerely hope that the Gov. Mitt Romney and the state legislature...
Coetzee, who has gained national fame for his writings on the legacy of apartheid South Africa, was born in Cape Town and currently resides in Australia...