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...first of a series of 15 weekly dinners and discussion periods was held at the Signet Club last night. The speaker was Paul M. Herzong '27, associate dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration and former chairman of the National Labor Relations board...
...like Stylus, K.G.X., and Alpha Phi Sigman dropped from the College roster, the more established clubs retrenched. With the beginning of the war and the occupation of the College by the navy, however, additional read-justment was necessary. The Hasty Pudding was converted to an Officer's Club, the Signet, Harvard's undergraduate literary society, turned its building over to the Red Cross. Again, it was only the active and loose-fisted alumni that pulled many of the final clubs through the three-year occupation by the military. With the end of the war and the upsurge of the veteran...
...clubs. Preliminary punches are generally held in the College room of a club member, since non-members among the undergraduates are not allowed within the club houses. If he passes close scrutiny at the punches, the candidate is then asked to a club dinner, sometimes held at the Signet or the Boston Harvard Club. Should he reach the final dinner the candidate can be quite assured of an invitation to join; but there are frequent exceptions. Election night (this year it was last night) the members gather at the club to discuss all the candidates who have survived the punching...
PAPERBACK book publishers are astonished at the record-breaking sales of Signet's 75? reprint of James Jones's From Here to Eternity, especially since many of them thought the price too high. When the first printing of 500,000 copies sold out in six days, Signet ordered a second edition of 300,000 copies, sold it almost as fast. Signet now expects to sell more than 1,000,000 copies by the end of the first month...
...when he arrived at the Browning School in New York at the age of nine, he was two years ahead of his class. At Harvard, where he was a shy and awkward youth, he concentrated on fine arts, was a second-string tennist and president of the literary Signet Club. He graduated with honors...