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...Eta Speakers' Club...
...minder Joe Bertagna stopped shots that made the brave men in Section 18 cringe with fear while Pete Proulx got in front of stuff that made the Pi Eta boys pound their seats in rage...
...first enforced in the 16th century, when many of the pariahs' ancestors lived by slaughtering and skinning animals to produce leather, work that devout Buddhists and Shintoists consider defiling. Other buraku-min followed such despised occupations as burying the dead, executing criminals, telling fortunes and begging. Classified as eta (filthy ones), they were forced to step aside when other Japanese passed, to kneel during business dealings with non-eta, and to pick up the wages thrown in their direction by employers fearful of contamination...
Harvard hockey team gave the Pi Eta Club a present even sweeter then Ripple wine last night--a penalty filled, 6-5 victory over arch-rival Boston University at B.U.'s Walter Brown Memorial Risk...
Hynes's main interest, besides hockey, is the Pi Eta Club, "I know most of the guys there, and generally, it's just a good place to go when you want to take it easy and relax," Hynes said. He noted, however, that he cannot participate in the--club's most infamous activity--nude dashes to Nini's Corner. "I know a lot of people in Cambridge, including policemen. It would be pretty embarrassing if I ran into someone I knew on one of those-runs for daylight...