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Last Friday night, unfurled flags from across the world hung limply on the walls of Adams dining hall, making a sharp contrast with the dark-stained mahogany columns and gilded chandeliers. Somehow, it was the perfect integration of the international and the American aesthetic. It was the Woodbridge Society??s annual Fiesta Mondiale, and it was completely sold-out. Originally created by five international students in 1994, the Woodbridge Society is enjoying its most successful year to-date with membership numbers now swelling into the hundreds. No longer simply a refuge for foreign students, the society has become...
Replacing the flags that went missing from the Woodbridge Society??s annual Fiesta Mondiale event last Friday will only cost $100, contrary to the student group’s initial belief, according to the Office of the University Marshal. The organization of international students held its Fiesta in the Adams House dining hall and discovered at the end of the evening that two of five large flags loaned from the Marshal’s office and used to decorate the walls were nowhere to be found. Members of the group had worried at first that it would take...
...flags belonging to the University disappeared on Friday night during an event in Adams House that was organized by one of Harvard’s largest international student groups. During clean-up at the end the Woodbridge Society??s annual event, Fiesta Mondiale, members of the organization discovered that the flags of Australia and Paraguay were missing from the dining hall. The flags had been on loan to the organization for the evening by the Office of the University Marshal, which arranges the visits of national and international dignitaries to Harvard who are invited by the President...
...person did up to a point. They would have been argued out enough that we would say, ‘I don’t always agree with it, but I stand by it.’”INTELLECTUAL FISTICUFFSSince the first issue, topics ranging from modern society??s addiction to email and internet porn to global warming to the decline in the number of people reading literature have all been covered. The intention behind these pieces is often one of provocation. “People who read the magazine are out there and sometimes they...
...discarded dinner. “I think it was a mistake. We probably should’ve had one anyway. That angered a lot of people. From there it was kind of a downward spiral.” In order to boost funding through membership fees, the Society??s board thought of contacting other Harvard graduate schools. But according to Douglas, “seeing how the [School of Education] is a majority female school and one of the big draws of the Inn is the bar and not many girls will join a $350 organization just...