Word: club
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Final Clubs: A.D. Club, The Bat Club, The Delphic Club, D.U. Club, Fly Club, Fox Club, Iroquois Club, Owl Club, Phoenix-S.K. Club Porcellian Club, the Spee Club...
...smoking wasn't the only activity the crowd of over 1000 indulged in. Several members of a motorcycle club decided to put on a trick-riding show. First they zoomed around the Common, then they took off for adjoining Beacon St. with hundreds of young admirers trailing behind...
Most students go through Harvard without knowing much about final clubs, and what they do know is usually inaccurate. The 11 clubs, whose combined membership comprise about 10 per cent of the college, vary widely in their attitudes and isolation from the rest of Harvard. Not all, or even a majority of club members, are snobby in the least. And then again, some are the most pompous, close-minded people you'll ever...
...fact that membership invitations operate on a blackball election system ensures that discrimination will exist (only one club has ever had a Negro member). Anywhere from one to three blackballs (i.e., negative votes) will require a club to reconsider the case for electing a "punchee," and four blackballs definitely seals his fate...
...club of 50 may have 15 or 20 active members on a regular basis. These are the students who look to the club for security, or shelter, or brotherhood, or whatever it is that the College does not seem to provide. They take the final club seriously and center their undergraduate lives around...