Word: finaling
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That said, if you're going to join a final club, please just remember that they are a particularly easy target for a reason. Recognize the tradition of which you are now a part. Whatever their current function--and I am not inclined to believe that the clubs are quite as far removed from their origins as some would argue--the final clubs began as Old Boys' Clubs. They started popping up around the time when the Harvard student body was becoming more socio-economically diverse, and one obvious theory is that the clubs were a reaction to this...
Every Harvard student should probably take a minute now and then to remember that this is not normal; that we live in a bubble of special treatment that encompasses most of the country's good colleges and an always shockingly small percentage of its actual citizens. Final club members should take a lot of minutes, whenever possible, to enforce this reality check. One of the most unnerving aspects of the clubs is their potential for loss of perspective. It is so frighteningly easy to lose sight of the absurdity of a bunch of 20-year-old guys renting out Boston...
Eventually, of course, the clubs are going to have to go. For now, they're pretty low on the list of the world's evils, but final clubs as we know them will probably go the way of WASP-only country club (if the WASP-only country club has, as I hope, gone that way). While I fully acknowledge a difference in degree between final clubs and other, more extreme branches of the elitist patriarchy, they're still on the same continuum, and the march of history seems to suggest that somehow, at some point, their number will come...
After Black Bear sophomore goaltender Amanda Cronin held Harvard scoreless in the first period, the Crimson fired 28 shots on goal in the second and headed into the final intermission comfortably ahead...
DURHAM, N.H.--Although the final statistics indicate that this was another evenly matched game between two of the best programs in collegiate women's hockey, it wasn't that close...