Word: club
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...England trip in late August means so much right now," said Howard, a Fine Arts major in Eliot House. "It brought our club together, and we've maintained that high ever since. We feel good about ourselves, believe in each other, and everybody is pulling their own weight and contributing for the team...
Names like Roosevelt, Kennedy, Saltonstall, Cabot, Lodge, Lowell and Conant are laced across Harvard's final club history with inbreeding and nepotism. There is even a story of J.P. Morgan, who at Harvard was already every bit the stormy and ruthless baron who glares from the pages of history books. Refused membership in the Fly Club, an insulted Morgan decided to build his own final club, the Delphic. For years it was called "the Gas" because its steward kept the gas lights burning all night, making the club appear as a social beehive to passing outsiders. Unquestionably, by tradition...
When asked about how he felt about being part of an elite, one final club member snapped back over his dinner at Lowell House, "So what? There will always be elites, there have to be elites--why shouldn't I be part...
...have a chance for membership in a final club a boy must be, to start with, what is called 'club material'... These clubs for which the Pudding acts as a sort of proving ground, are the real be-alls and end-alls of Harvard social existence, and since there are but ten of them and in lean social years some have been known to take as few as four members, it is not a life for everyone. --Cleveland Amory '39, from The Proper Bostonians...
...anything to your ball club after a game like that. They stormed back, but it was a tough one to lose, er, tie," Restic said...