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...located was even built. And although it is likely that Harvard never lived in the room, it is replete with 75 years of artifacts left by previous scholarship recipients. From age-old furniture to Harvard paraphernalia, alumni have left behind items such as a pewter stein from the Owl Club or Let’s Go travel guides, according to the Harvard Magazine article.Lala, who won the John Eliot Scholarship and will live in Jesus College, founded the Harvard Interfaith Council as a sophomore and worked in the health policy office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy...
...you’re going to run, please run in only the clothes that you were given at birth. • Dartboard was fascinated by recent news stories proclaiming Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 as a member of the Owl Club. The Kennedys are wealthy and white and hang out with wealthy, white people? Dartboard never knew. • When Dartboard heard the College was looking to hire someone to deal with the Harvard brand, Dartboard wondered if Harvard had read Dartboard’s mind. After seeing a New York...
Earlier this week, the exhausting final club controversy was thrust onto the national stage after Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 severed his ties with the Owl Club. The collective squirming of the eight exclusive clubs’ prospective politicos could be sensed. The senator’s affiliation with the club was questioned late last week by conservatives after Kennedy lambasted Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito for his membership in the conservative group Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP). Though Kennedy’s disassociation with the Owl was likely motivated by political expedience...
Kennedy’s exit from the Owl raises the question of whether current Harvard undergrads with aspirations for higher office will steer clear of final clubs to prevent any damage to their planned political careers...
Thomas R. Benson ’09, who said he is considering a professional career in politics, wrote in an e-mail that the uproar over Kennedy’s Owl ties would not discourage him from joining a final club. “The attack on Kennedy was unmerited,” Benson wrote...