Word: signetics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...normally staid Signet Society was shaken by controversy last week over invitations to the club's tres formal Annual Dinner at President Bok's formal residence on 17 Quincy Street...
Because of the size of the building, the University limited the bash to 120 guests. As a result, the Club was forced to turn away a number of 'undergraduates and Signet alumni--more than a few feathers were ruffled when it turned out that famous ex-Signeteer Norman W. Mailer '43 was informed that he would not be welcome...
...Lampoon: Advisory Comm. on Shandholder Responsibility: Signet Society...
...significant entertainment," says Secretary to the University Robert Shenton. Social functions that take place at 17 Quincy Street are generaly initiated by high-level University administrators such as Bok and the Deans. Other University groups can request to use the facility but must be formally approved--like the Signet Society annual dinner. The entertainment primarily consists of formal dinners that range from two to 140 people--such as the town-gown meeting between administrators and Cambridge officials which took place last June, or the massive semi-annual Development Office bash...
...Atlas is the only student in My Harvard, My Yale who was at Harvard during the 1969 student takeover of University Hall, but he makes not even passing reference to that explosive event. In fact, the only intrusion of 60s turbulence into Atlas' world takes place, amusingly, at the Signet, when Allen Ginsberg lights up a joint at a black-tie literary dinner. (I suddenly caught a whiff of a pungent, acrid odor that seemed...well, odd in these circumstances...