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...never open to women. Most of us didn't actively miss sports but we all would have benefited from the camaraderie of some group exercise as we tended to be solitary and intense. We were mostly less than svelte (dorm food was not bad, better than Harvard's famous steam tables) and resigned to our shapes. We knew we were short-changed but there seemed to be no way to make things change...
...immediate outlook is good. The economy, which grew at a surprising 8.8% annual rate in the first quarter, is sure to slow down, but it is not likely to stall. Said Board Member Walter Heller, who served as President Kennedy's chief economic adviser: "There is plenty of steam left in the boiler...
Second, the Olympics are a good place to let off the world's steam. Orwell criticized the Games as "war minus the shooting," but given the alternative, that seems no condemnation. There has always been a lot of sociological fretting about the bellicosity of sport, how smoothly the exercise of aggression transfers itself to swords and guns-most of which seems nonsense. But even if a line may be drawn from the playing fields of Eton to Waterloo, still the playing fields must be judged preferable; better to be akin to war than in one. What gets observers...
These services, which the clubs currently receive free, include access to the Centrex phone system, steam heating, alumni records, and use of Harvard property...
...explore why such attitudes exist, and how they might be changed. The University's implicit acceptance and subsidization of all male clubs--including the Pi Eta as well as nine final clubs--probably has something to do with it. Harvard currently offers the final clubs access to the steam heat system, centrex phones and alumni records. Such involvement with groups that, as a matter of policy, exclude women, can only be seen as an insult to the principle of total equality for women at Harvard...