Word: clubbings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty years ago, a morning on the golf course was a political statement. To the tune-in, drop-out generation, golf meant Bob Hope and his U.S.O. tours, neatly pressed clothes, graying hair trimmed high around the ears and cut well above the collar. Country-club golf was a symbol of everything the young held in contempt, a bastion, perhaps the last, of the back-slapping big business deal. Golf was something for Dad, but not for the new generation...
While the 58-year-old Faculty Club is closed this summer for renovations, professors and other Harvard officials looking for the club's traditional cuisine will have to trek to the student dining hall...
...renovations, which are scheduled to begin the day after commencement and end on October 1, are necessary because the club's electrical and plumbing systems are "in advanced stages of decay," wrote Robert Shenton, secretary to the governing boards and president of the Faculty Club Managing Board, in a letter to officers and faculty...
...club, which has not had a major renovation since it was built in 1931, currently serves as a meeting and eating place for faculty members and provides overnight accommodations for guests and rooms for special functions. The temporary facilities in Quincy will only provide dining services...
Quincy House does not need additional facilities or personnel to accomodate the faculty or to prepare the club's menu, said Frank J. Weissbecker, director of the Harvard Dining Services. "Quincy has a nice kitchen," Weissbecker said. "We are used to catering for special occasions, and we still have the faculty club support personnel...