Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Porcellian frankly admitted its lack of direction, other clubs springing up in this period often claimed loftier motives. The Hasty Pudding Club, formed in 1795, purported to "cherish the feelings of friendship and patriotism." To serve the latter purpose, the club celebrated Washington's birthday for many years with a program of orations, patriotic songs and speeches. Under the first constitution of the club, "two members, in alphabetical order, shall provide a pot of hasty-pudding for every meeting," and from this, the name...
...oratory. The club was also dubbed "The Speaking Club," but since the group wished to keep its nature secret to non-members, the name was dropped. During the first half of the nineteenth century, clubs arose, grew, and merged. The Hermetic Society and the I.O.H. joined the Institute, the latter bringing with it an extensive library. Both the serious and the social groups had begun collecting books, filling in the chinks in College libraries...
...forced to live in a college room and pay for all his meals, some club members could not afford the double expense and several clubs had to shut down. The thirties were also an era of merger and expansion. For example, the Phoenix and the Sigma Kappa, this latter a hold over from the fraternity years, combined and went final. And the clubhouse of Spee, a group which 80 years before had been the Harvard chapter of Zeta Phi, was typical of the building and decorating of the 1930s...
Moving up to 157, there are returnee Lennio Miller and Dick Hook. The latter was captain of last year's undefeated freshman team. And even in the frequently sparse 177-pound class, the team has two good men. Both Al Culbert, the football player, and his brother Ken, another letterman, can fill this position...
...England League is composed of a Northern and a Southern division, with Harvard in the latter, matched against Boston University. Yale, and the Coast Guard Academy. The team's Schedule is not limited to League members, however, and will include Dartmouth, the University of New 'Hampshire, and several others...