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...colonization” process succeeds, it won’t be TDX’s first encounter with Harvard. From 1856 to the start of the first world war, the frat was one of several dozen male social clubs on campus. Housed at 54 Dunster Street, now the Office of Career Services, TDX joined stalwarts like the Spee, the A.D. and the Delphic as well as other clubs who have also since departed—lost gems like the “Iroquois,” the “Argos,” and the “Stylus...
...States under the Comstock Law of 1873, prohibiting the sale of “lewd,” “indecent,” “filthy,” or “obscene” materials—and not without reason. Many a perspicacious frat boy has perked up during an otherwise soporific lecture on, say, “The Miller’s Tale,” in appreciative recognition of cognates which, to invoke Justice Potter Stewart’s famous dictum, he knows when he sees...
Meghan is the author of some of the past year’s more memorable profiles—including a one-man frat and a first-year who prefers studying in the elevator to the library. FM’s crystal ball forecasts wittier headlines, better article ideas and many fun Tuesday nights with Meghan on board. Plus, we think she’s hott...
...that’s left is a social order with an antiquated hierarchy (Nerds versus Jocks with Frat Boys thrown in), a few funny depictions of keggers and tailgating and the thumping, omnipresent bass of Doctor Dis. It is not enough from an author so dedicated to rigorously depicting the carnival of the American scene. While researching college life, it seems Wolfe leaned too close to the speakers while jotting down notes, for his vaunted hearing has failed...
When ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's asked a Penn State scientist to build a freezer that won't contribute to global warming, the result was like a frat-house experiment gone right. The apparatus uses sound waves to compress and expand helium, which in turn chills a liquid cooling agent--in this case, vodka. Bizarre, but it works: the stainless-steel canister was used last April to cool pints of Cherry Garcia and Chunky Monkey at a New York City scoop shop...