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Legend had it that in order to become a member of the Med. Fac., interested undergraduates had to pull a prank serious enough to risk expulsion from the College. In the early days of the society, the club??s pranks included mocking college administrators and granting fake degrees, painting the John Harvard statue red, and locking unpopular tutors in their studies. The society issued honorary degrees—fake diplomas written in pidgin Latin—to notable contemporaries, such as the prince of Haiti, a pair of Siamese twins known as Cheng and Heng, a sea serpent...
...girlfriends would wait outside eagerly. I even ventured in a few times. It was always just another Harvard party. Often I saw behavior that made me uncomfortable: a member telling a non-member guy to “get the f*ck out of my club?? or members prowling the dance floor and sizing up the attributes of the females in the room...
Final clubbers have it easy. They tap into their club??s trust fund and open the doors to their mansion to a selective guest list. Then they’ve got a (supposedly) killer bash—and most importantly, an identity. As for the guests, they let their friends or boyfriends have a direct position of power over them. Fall out with one member, fall out with all, right? The label (and the late-night parties) are so important to people that they put up with all sorts of indignities—even the threat of sexual...
...meantime, he continues to be a campus celebrity. Over 75 students belong to the “Spare Change Guy Fan Club?? on thefacebook.com, which pays tribute to Daugherty’s trademark sales pitches, including “Pretty lady, show me a smile,” and “Sister, can you spare a dime...
...problems that are associated with a white male power structure—the old boys network dominating academia, business, medicine, journalism, and virtually all areas of American society. If Summers is truly sincere in his concerns about diversity, he should implement a plan to transform this “club?? into one that is genuinely inclusive...