Word: signet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like most long-lived Harvard institutions, the Signet Society has a extensive set of traditions and rituals passed down through the years...
...members receive roses, which they are supposed to press between the pages of a book and to return to the Signet when their first works are recognized or published...
...Signet also enjoys a longstanding relationship with Yale University's Elizabethan Society. The two groups host parties for one another following the Harvard-Yale football game and compete in a croquet match each year...
...annual spring banquet, put on by the Associate Board, is the year's biggest event. Celebrity alumni like Walburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith can usually be relied on to appear, and the evening always features a distinguished guest who is awarded the Signet's medal of achievement...
...many ways, some members say, the Signet fills in the gaps that intellectual life in the houses today leaves--but only for its members...