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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...

Author: By Joseph M. Tartakoff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cross Store Opens on Brattle | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

When final club punching season begins, I am often reminded of my grandfather??s story about the dead fish...

Author: By Beccah G. Watson, | Title: Of Dead Fish and Final Clubs | 10/17/2003 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Beccah G. Watson, | Title: Of Dead Fish and Final Clubs | 10/17/2003 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Beccah G. Watson, | Title: Of Dead Fish and Final Clubs | 10/17/2003 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Beccah G. Watson, | Title: Of Dead Fish and Final Clubs | 10/17/2003 | See Source »

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