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...secret societies are a strange, subdued version of Harvard's final clubs. They serve as a contact network and bonding group for members without including a social aspect. The societies contain only seniors. There are five societies which own "tombs," or buildings of their own, and these are the oldest and most prestigious. Recently, though, students have begun to form their own new societies, sometimes renting apartments as space for their activities...
According to Thomas Hauber, director of thePerelman Quadrangle, student groups are beinghoused wherever space can be found while PerlmanQuad buildings--including Houston Hall, thenation's oldest student center-are graduallyreopened over the next year. When it reopens nextMay, Houston Hall will provide a myriad of studentservices, including a food court, a copy center, a2,700 square foot game room, a newsstand andmultiple meeting rooms...
...oldest pub in the area hardly hints of itsauthenticity on the outside. Tucked away next toMcKinon's Choice Meats, with red blinds coveringthe windows, Sligo Pub attracts a more traditionalcrowd...
...oldest expositions of a philosophy akin to our modern glorification of love can be found in Plato's Symposium. We might be surprised to find the ideal associated exclusively with homosexual relationship. Most of the men who participated in these relationships were married and had children (or would later marry and have children), yet they regarded their marital life as completely removed from any romantic ideals and geared exclusively towards reproduction. In the entire Symposium, the only mention of heterosexual intercourse is in the context of adultery. The adulterous man was understood to be acting out of love...
BankBoston, the nation's oldest commercial bank, announced this week that it will merge with another Boston-based company, Fleet Financial Group, to become Fleet Boston Corporation...