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Some members are trying to open up the election process so that any undergraduate could try to become a member. "A big concern among members is how to make [the Signet] less elitist than it is now," says Cardwell, a Kirkland House resident...
...Ideally, people would be able to nominate themselves," says Hirschorn, adding that while the "large, large majority of people in the Signet deserve to be there," other students at Harvard who deserve to be elected are never nominated...
...group of dissatisfied final club members started the Signet in 1870, when some juniors became fed up with the traditional social strata on campus and decided to form a new organization with a membership based on "merit and character," according to a piece written by member Nathan C. Shiverick '52 on the Society's centennial. Now 116 years old, the Signet is located in yellow cottage at 46 Dunster Street, a building it bought from the AD Club...
Today all nine exclusive all-male clubs--as well as the Hasty Pudding, the Pi ETA, and the Signet--accept members from all classes except the freshmen class. The Harvard Lampoon selects its membership from all four classes...
...boycott the 100-year-old Hasty Pudding and join the much younger Pi Eta Club. Not satisfied there, they dropped out. In reaction, the Hasty Pudding and Pi Eta clubs acted to prevent Bonaparte and his friends from joining any of the junior waiting clubs. And so the Signet was born as a juniors-only club...