Word: clubbing
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Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, future president of the United States, described it years later as the greatest disappointment of his life. Someone--he never learned who--had black-balled him, vetoing his membership in the Porcellian Club, at the turn of the century the top rung in Harvard's rigid social ladder. Heartbroken, the young Franklin had to settle for the Fly Club and the Crimson presidency instead...
...time, the final clubs were the center of an undergraduate's life at the College. As we read about it now, the elaborate club system that dominated student life in those days may seem absurd: prospective members had to go through dozens of rounds of selection and rejection before reaching the elusive clubhouse of choice...
...some things never change. Harvard students today may not spend as much time debating the relative social merits of the A.D. and the Fly as they did in 1903. But if you substitute student groups--which to a large extent have replaced final clubs as the cornerstone of students' identity--for the clubs, Roosevelt would feel at home. Harvard students still love a good hierarchy. And, sadly, the institutionalized pecking order of many Harvard student groups is oftentimes just as silly as the turn-of-the-century final club scene seems...
...Fight Club I have these enormous breasts because the character had testicular cancer and had to take female hormones...
Meat Loaf has parts in Fight Club and Crazy in Alabama, and is releasing his autobiography, To Hell and Back...