Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That leaves lunch, and even here the Houses don't have much to offer. "It's a long walk down from Littauer or the Bio Labs," one Master says; "the Faculty Club is closer and you can talk there with colleagues about whatever problem you're working on. The free meal at the House isn't much of a draw for these men--especially when it's something like cold Welsh rarebit...
...order to preserve a respectable place in the league. Harvard took the EIBL last year. Already Harvard has dropped games to Boston University and Boston College losing its chance for the crown. In order to place at least third the Crimson must beat last year's cellar club, Brandeis...
...supposedly on merit. Unlike the groups of early Christians or the cells of the French Resistance, justification derives not from an oppressive outer force but rather from the members' inner needs for exclusivity. As James Baldwin has pointed out, everyone needs his "nigger." We are told by the Choate Club president that secrecy was necessary in order to avoid the anxiety suffered by those who weren't chosen. I suggest rather that secrecy at the Choate Club, in an egalitarian age where restrictive barriers are collapsing and on a campus where fraternal orders are viewed with some disdain...
Although the need for a secret society can be questioned on ideological grounds, the harm of such a group at the Law School is something which touches everybody. There is little doubt that objection to the Choate Club would be minimal if the group were composed entirely of students, or of faculty, and if the Law School were a low-key institution run on a pass-fail system. The outsiders could brush it off as "the beautiful people doing their thing." But a secret fraternal order of faculty and students does great damage at a competitive institution which justifies...
...problem of alienation at the Law School extends beyond the problems of a disaffected minority. It may extend as well to the vast majority of students who are not in the top handful in class rank or who lack the social acceptability which members of the Choate Club esteem so highly. Roger Lowenstein...