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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Absent from the list of scorers was DeVries, the most productive scorer behind the seniors last season with 20 goals and 11 assists...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Lacrosse Looks for First Win Against B.C. | 3/12/1999 | See Source »

...think this is the prep school list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As Follows | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...Boston is near and while the custom of Boston Society of inviting an unknown list of sophomores to meet their daughters at their debutante dances is not an unmixed blessing for boys engrossed in studies, neither is it an unmixed evil. This training does not make for good manners, tending to make a snob of an impressionable boy, who learns to think that he has been sought after by a social Boston of which he does not altogether approve, of which he may even be a bit contemptuous. Yet it does open a door for a needed contact with girls...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: The GOLD Coast | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

Throughout its history, Harvard College has suffered the effects of a "social cleaver." In the mid-eighteenth century the college president personally listed students, when they enrolled, in order of their social rank or, to be precise, "to the Dignity of the Familie whereto the students severally belonged." The social list was printed in the college catalogue for all to see. The creme de la creme were placed at the top, followed by the social outcasts who attended Harvard because of academic merit. The social list determined precedence in table seating and service during meals, position in academic processionals...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: The GOLD Coast | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

This institutionalized method of social rank was soon terminated, not because it was deemed undemocratic, but because too many angry parents harrassed the president for not rating their sons high enough. Nevertheless, new lists emerged and even without the "official list" the Gold Coast was still shining in the distance, a glowing reminder of the best things in life...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: The GOLD Coast | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

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