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...snake-danced through the Square--mild stuff by modern standards but considered pretty far out for the times. The Cambridge Police looked on with a certain amount of benevolence and left the nabbing to the college "cops." And late in the spring, during the "reading period," the Harvard Glee Club used to give concerts in the early evening on the steps of Widener while couples sat on the grass and held hands...
Forbes has served at various times as department head tutor, chairman, and director of choral activities, conducting both the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society until 1970. He presided over three Glee Club tours and made three recordings...
What exactly is this "gender gap"? Why are both Democrats and Republicans eyeing it with increasing interest, the former with growing glee and the latter with growing discomfort? Why, after 63 years of women's suffrage, should the fact of being a female voter(or a male one for that matter) color a choice in the voting booth...
September 12--Freshman Week starts and students get their first exposure to Dean of the Faculty Watt at opening exercises. Gazing out at the assembled Class of '88, Watt muses. "I didn't know so many WASPs had red hair--or are some of you crossbred?" The Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society offer a Wayne Newton medley in place of the traditional "Fair Harvard" and "The Only Man at the Radcliffe Tea." For the first time in living memory, parents and freshmen do not leave during the songs...
None of these expedients will prevent students from celebrating victory; they will merely end the most dangerous element of that glee. Tradition is a fine thing, but let's start a new one for the second hundred years...