Word: old-boy
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...Harvard Rules deserves praise, however, for its attempt to trace the historical roots of the University's flaws. It does an admirable job of documenting Harvard's extensive connections with the Cold War military-industrial complex and detailing the transformation of the University from old-boy clubhouse to pseudo-corporate bureaucracy during the 18-year tenure of President Derek C. Bok. The authors deserve credit, if only for collecting into one volume all the information that tends to get lost in an institution whose memory rarely extends more than four years...
...There is considered to be an old-boy network," Barrett says...
...receive the vote until 1971, and they have become a more powerful presence in the workplace and in politics. "There's a male network to which women don't belong," says industrial psychologist Anita Calonder-Gerster. And their new prominence has not dissipated their hostility to the old-boy military system...
Only about seven percent of the women surveyed said the "old-boy network" was a problem. Caroline M. Corbin '90, RUS' representative to the Radcliffe Board of Trustees, said, "It is hard to be more specific about sexism today because it tends to be more subtle...
...traditionally Jewish organization are to some extent questionable, his argument showed little appreciation for the need for a new breed of social organization. Students are attempting to broaden the organized social life of a University whose present system caters almost exclusively to prep-school WASPs and old-boy legacies...