Word: club
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...envelope contains an elegant, hand-scripted invitation to a cocktail party at a final club. R.S.V.P. Some toss the "punches" in the trash, some are overjoyed and seek congratulations, and others have a vague interest in checking it out. They have been "punched," because early October is "punching season" for the final clubs...
...club members feel a student won't "fit in" they won't elect him. Furthermore, a candidate can be shut out by "blackballing"--when any one club member adamantly opposes a certain student's election...
Once admitted to a club, a student must usually pay a $100 initiation fee and, on the average, a $300 fee for annual dues. The dues cover a limited number of free meals and drinks, and they do not begin to cover a club's yearly overhead. Property taxes on some of the clubs take as much as $30,000 every year...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, admits that club alumni are often "wealthy and powerful." During the '60s, he said, 80 per cent of Harvard's governing boards, Board of Overseers and Corporation were former clubbies. Epps said that ten per cent of the University's individual donors--many of whom are clubbies--supply 80 per cent of Harvard's donations...
...Many club alumni take an active role in their clubs as members of the club's graduate board. While the graduate board does not determine the club's day-to-day operation and social activities, they can make the final decision about any club policy or activity. Last year, for example, the graduate board of the D.U. overruled the club's decision to admit women to their ranks...