Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beta Kappa, a prestigious academic honor society, has elected twelve Harvard juniors to join the institution...
After the official registration, they had to run an endless gauntlet of wild, paper-waving proselytizers, all vociferously urging Harvard's now-official freshmen to join the Young Democrats, Republicans, Liberals, Conservatives mountain climbers, scuba divers...
...President and Fellows" is meant as a gentle parody of the pretennons of most academic journals. I thought we were making out intentions clear by stating explicitly that we chose "a rousing name for an editorial board composed entirely of undergraduates and open to any undergraduate who wishes to join." But Harry, and any others who missed the understated explanation, can reassure themselves that the excesses of the Forum are entirely tongue-in-check...
...homogencity" of the staff. "Or eleven editors," he complains, "nine are men...and four live in Adams House." In fact, we have tried persistently to be the least homogenous undergraduate publication at Harvard. Our editorial board, we have announced repeatedly, is open to any undergraduate who wishes to join, without any comp of any kind. But like many new student organizations, the Forum started with a staff of a few close friends. And although we came to Cambridge in early September to table freshmen, and although we postered throughout the fall for introductory meetings, not a stagle undergraduate--male...
...intend to stay here until the end of the business day, in order to express our moral indignation at Harvard's refusal to join a growing national movement to end American support for apartheid. In spite of 13 years of university community pressure for divestment, the Harvard Corporation has remained a strong supporter of continued American economic involvement in south Africa, both in its public statements and in its proxy votes...