Word: signet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the trenches of the Afghan war with the Soviet Union to the chandeliered vestibules of the Spee and Signet...
...lies in the channels he has chosen for his writing. As he says, "I was always looking for new ways to get stuff out, my stuff or other people's stuff." He says that many people expected him to be on the Advocate board, or a member of the Signet Society. But he was neither. "The Advocate publishes its own people," he says. "If you just look at the Advocate, you would think the literary community is very small. The problem is that the Advocatealso thinks it's very small." Though the Advocate published each poem he submitted...
...recognized thatHarvard couldn't be hurried toward fullco-education--or whether she was just willing tosettle for crumbs. "Gracious living" wasRadcliffe's hallmark until sit-down dinners anddemitasse disappeared our senior year. Complainingtoo loudly about the Cliffe's second-rate housingand athletic facilities, about our exclusion fromthe Pudding, the Signet Society and (until 1966)Lamont, wouldn't have been gracious...
...latest addition to the shelf is JFK: Conspiracy of Silence (Signet; 205 pages; $4.99 paper) by Charles A. Crenshaw. It is the first account written by a doctor who was part of the Parkland Memorial Hospital trauma team that tried to save Kennedy and, two days later, his assassin (sorry, alleged assassin), Lee Harvey Oswald...
...though not all students can have access to the resources of the Signet, the club's members say that it makes a valuable contribution to the community as a whole in a number of ways...