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Cairnie came to the School of Landscape Design at Harvard from Caticook, Quebec, in the 1920s. He soon abandoned his studies and devoted all his energies to his books. He was an honorary member of the Signet Society. The Advocate along with several other national literary reviews dedicated issues...
GORDON never succumbed to the greatest temptation of age, the urge to be venerated. The day before Commencement, last month, I watched him trade jokes with his friend, Bob Tonis, as earthy as ever. Last spring, at a Signet dinner, he matched his table companions, drink for drink, with that unpalatable vodka he used to like. And at a dinner a year ago, while James Tate was reading his poetry, Gordon sneezed, long and loud. Tate snapped "Shut up Gordon," and Gordon laughed as loud as he had sneezed...
Walter S. Isaacson '74 is the new president of the Signet Society...
...Plympton Street or anything of the kind, this is a celebration not a recrimination so my purpose is really historical to refresh memories and perhaps to indicate a few things that some of the older people here might not even have been aware of. For instance, the Signet, which virtually every serious male Crimson editor joined was something we saw only at faculty or alumni dinners. Now my friends on The Crimson who consistently refused to put my name up for nomination tried to ease the blow by telling me that I was overglamorizing the Signet and that really...
...recent conversation at the atavistic Grolier Bookshop, a Signet initiate explained to me that "poems are like jewels." Is Rich a lapidary? Jewels fall in the pockets of the wealthy. Does Rich write for the ruling class? Thomas Goodkind...