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...This is not your grandfather??s Cross pen anymore,” Dryden said, pointing to a wall of colorful pens at the back of the store, that did, however, include classic Cross products...
When final club punching season begins, I am often reminded of my grandfather??s story about the dead fish...
...process: how he had to count the number of black tiles on the checkered floor of a popular Harvard Square restaurant and measure the distance from the John Harvard statue to the river with a slimy, dead fish. Being a member of the A.D. was a highlight of my grandfather??s years at Harvard...
...clubs have changed since my grandfather??s time. Partly, it’s undergraduate life that has changed: we drink more, go to sleep later and are more often in co-ed situations. Most of the clubs have taken on a kind of fraternity-like role on campus to accommodate these changes. Thus the crux of the problem today: an unhappy marriage between snotty gentleman’s club and modern day pimp hole-in-the-wall. The irony is that many graduates like my grandfather still financially support these clubs. It’s kind of like...
...less likely to get access to the club, but women are still allowed in. Thus the ratio of female guests to the club members can sometimes be pretty unbalanced, a result similar to that found at the Owl’s annual Catholic School Girl Night. Men in my grandfather??s time might have once had a problem with cooties, but it seems the clubs today have moved into a more brashly sexist pubescence...