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...HICC will be composed of the thirteen club presidents, one club member elected by each club, and three members of the Signet Society. One Signet representative must also be a member of the Lampoon. The President of the HICC should be elected by a majority vote of the Council. He must be a club president and a resident of Eliot House. In the unlikely event that no club president lives in Eliot, the presidents must choose a leader from among themselves by two-thirds majority, so long as their choice does not reside in Adams House...
However Harvard, as I say, does have a meat and potatoes equality. But when it comes to dessert--ah, that is another matter. Girls are allowed to be equal; they are not allowed to excel. Girls are not eligible for membership in Harvard's only literary honor society, the Signet. Until recently, there was no literary magazine for them to write on. Girls shy away from holding top offices in clubs or publications, from directing plays. And most important, for it reveals the deeply traditional roots of the practise, there are no travelling fellowships--certainly the most coveted senior prize...
...most honest, articulate, rational fellow who loves the Beatles (he once turned on with their manager, in fact), Robert Kennedy (whom he voted for), Bob Dylan, and the Marx Brothers. C. Day Lewis, in some banter about the French Symbolists, was astounded at his erudition. Some preppies at the Signet, expecting perhaps to lunch wit some raving faggot, were amazed to find him "such a nice Jewish man". His much misrepresented poetry, while usually phantasmagoric and undisciplined, it powerful and genuinely serious...
...memorial service for the late Lucien Price '07 will be held today at 2 p.m. in Memorial Church. Participating will be William Alfred, professor of English, and David L. Stone '61, former president of the Signet Society, along with the University Choir...
...many years a member of the Overseers' Committee to Visit the Philosophy Department. Price was also a member of the Signet and Phi Beta Kappa, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...