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Perry Smith also spent a lot of time writing, but he too found time for non-literary events at the Lampoon Spooner, also a Lampoon alumnus, recalls that during Phool's Week, the organization's initiation period. Smith "dressed a Phool up as Santa Claus and had other Phools attack him in downtown Boston...
...European Studies, recalls "the pluralism of the experience." Peter Brooks, a professor of French and comparative literature at Yale, remembers "that certain elegance." Robert Watkins III, a lawyer in Washington, D.C., recalls alliteratively, "the supreme sense of self-confidence." And Missouri-born Perry Smith, then the president of the Lampoon and now an Episcopal priest, sums up his college experiences as if they were part of a fable: "Little midwestern boy came and made good...
...addition, the Lampoon, as Smith remembers, was the only organization at that time that had an open, free bar "I dare say," he adds, "that a lot of destroyed livers can be traced to that...
...defined activities but we chose by interest. All girls--dorm councils, student government, the choral society. Co-ed--Phillips Brooks House, instrumental music, interest and academic clubs; affiliate--the drama club, political groups. The Crimson, Friend of member--the Outing Club. House musical and theatrical groups No women--the Lampoon, the private clubs, and, I believe, the Advocate, which, however, would publish Radcliffe writing. There was a ruckus my sophomore year over admitting girls to full-membership in the Dramatic Club Full membership was turned down (the movement was led by boys and girls), despite the talented and committed group...
...Mather House and in teaching undergraduate courses, loneliness seems to be an enormous problem at Harvard and Radcliffe. There are many opportunities to meet people here--foremost at meals in the co-ed Houses, in organizations like the Collegium Musicum, the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivand Players, The Crimson and Lampoon, and Harvard and Radcliffe Hillel and the Catholic Student Center. As an undergraduate myself, I participated in many activities, yet was so insecure and shy that I hardly ever dated. I felt at the time that I was along in this predicament. Subsequent experience with students indicates that...