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...Committee on College Life (CCL) approved 11 new student organizations yesterday morning, including the Harvard Celtic Club, the Harvard College Southern Society and the Goose, “an absurdist publication dedicated to bringing humor to the Harvard community in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut, Donald Barthelme, and Joseph Heller, among others...
...practical. The French waste their energy on fighting the language, thus losing many battles before they have even started. Robin Scott Lyons, France The best defense of French is not "a strong offense" but a more ethical way of dealing with its own minority languages, such as Breton, a Celtic language akin to Welsh that is desperately struggling for survival. France persistently refuses to ratify the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, thus combating at home a cultural diversity that it eloquently advocates for the rest of the world. How hypocritical! Marcel Texier Maurepas, France
...must first wait for the approval of the Office of Student Activities. To be formally acknowledged, a club must submit a constitution, a complete list of officers and members, and endorsements from two faculty advisers. All clubs must have at least ten undergraduate members. The faculty sponsors of the Celtic Club include Lindsay Page, a first-year proctor in Lionel Hall, and Tomas O’Cathasaigh, Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies, who is also director of graduate studies in the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures...
...club has already submitted all the necessary materials; although full accreditation could take until the end of November, the organization is otherwise a fully operational and active part of student life. Currently the Celtic Club has 25 to 30 members on its mailing list...
...club is not the first Celtic organization to grace the halls of Harvard. The now-defunct Celtic Society covered much of the same musical territory as Turner’s organization, but without its linguistic and cultural aspects. After most of the old group’s leaders graduated in 2002, the organization became inactive and effectively disbanded. This is unlikely to happen with Turner’s group, given the high level of interest and the fact that a vast majority of the founding members are sophomores...