Word: kirklander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...studying I come Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, some Saturdays and occasional Sundays" she says, though given a choice, "I'd rather go to Paris than go to the Filly." Bill Spencer '85 calls the Filly "a very good bar, with a lot of Harvard people, especially undergrads from Eliot, Kirkland and Winthrop. The owners are great," adding "they make you feel like you're having fun and not that they're out to make money...
Dress: As in any bar, the bouncer sets the outer limits of sartorial acceptability. Boots, gray jeans, and a slightly wild shirt are the absolute limit; its probably safer to stay within two classic Harvard styles: a Casual Kirkland (Harvard football t-shirt or a rugby shirt, Lee or Levis, Adidas or equivalent) or a Basic Eliot (Oxford button down, wool sweater, Levis or khakis). A jacket and tie for guys will only attract pesky single-sex, out-of-town-school types who think you're from the B-School...
...issue is the controversial matter of diversity. Should athletes continue to dominate Kirkland, as demographic studies have shown, while Eliot is virtually devoid of black students? What happens when students in one House have distinctly higher grades, on average, than residents of another...
Originally from posh, suburban Brookline, Mass., Stone came to Harvard, Kirkland House and the Owl Club from Milton Academy. Since graduating with a degree in economics, Stone has hit it big in the shipping industry. He is currently head of New York-based West India Shipping Inc., and before that ran States Marine Lines, which owns and operates a fleet of cargo ships...
Hawaii is the 50th state, and 50 of the world's leading photojournalists went there to illustrate A Day in the Life of Hawaii (Workman; 221 pages; $40). Fanning out through the islands on Friday, Dec. 2, 1983, the cameramen, including Eddie Adams, Gordon Parks and Douglas Kirkland, visited such disparate sites as a de livery room of a hospital on Oahu, the ranch country of the Big Island, a Japanese cemetery near Honolulu and the crest of dormant Haleakala volcano on Maui. The resulting kaleidoscope of scenery and characters, natives and haoles, shows an undiscovered country that, paradoxically...