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Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, future president of the United States, described it years later as the greatest disappointment of his life. Someone--he never learned who--had black-balled him, vetoing his membership in the Porcellian Club, at the turn of the century the top rung in Harvard's rigid social ladder. Heartbroken, the young Franklin had to settle for the Fly Club and the Crimson presidency instead...
...time, the final clubs were the center of an undergraduate's life at the College. As we read about it now, the elaborate club system that dominated student life in those days may seem absurd: prospective members had to go through dozens of rounds of selection and rejection before reaching the elusive clubhouse of choice...
...pretend to have an explanation for the rampant and enduring desire to impose hierarchies on student life. Maybe it's four years of high school, years that many of us treated like a giant scavenger hunt for college application fodder, that trains us to think that way. Maybe we're all just massively insecure...
...made up of rain-bearing clouds and extremely high winds. In order for a hurricane to become as powerful as an Andrew or a Floyd, it must encounter several very specific environmental factors, including water temperatures above 80 degrees and a calm upper atmosphere. An Atlantic storm begins its life when high cumulus clouds gather over warm waters, often off the west coast of Africa. These clouds become a circular mass of thunderstorms, shaped by the curvature of the earth's atmosphere. These strong thunderstorms develop into tropical storms as they suck warm surface water...
...some time in their life, all children experience distress--commonly called separation anxiety--when saying goodbye to parents. But as Stephanie Johnson can attest, the suffering can be kept to a minimum--which is important, since the way early separations are handled, psychologists believe, can influence how people manage transitions throughout their life...