Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, future president of the United States, described it years later as the greatest disappointment of his life. Someone--he never learned who--had black-balled him, vetoing his membership in the Porcellian Club, at the turn of the century the top rung in Harvard's rigid social ladder. Heartbroken, the young Franklin had to settle for the Fly Club and the Crimson presidency instead...
...groups--which to a large extent have replaced final clubs as the cornerstone of students' identity--for the clubs, Roosevelt would feel at home. Harvard students still love a good hierarchy. And, sadly, the institutionalized pecking order of many Harvard student groups is oftentimes just as silly as the turn-of-the-century final club scene seems...
...hope it can happen. A new campus across the river would be great for Harvard. And, arguably, the business it would attract would be good for Allston too. But in the end it may turn out that the people of Allston don't want a Harvard outpost plunked down in their midst. If so, there are far less obtrusive uses to which Harvard can put its land--storage space, office space, new labs--and any of these would be preferable to assuring decades of animosity by building a new campus in a community that doesn't want...
...nationwide, estimates Patricia Lines of the U.S. Department of Education, who says their numbers tripled between 1990 and 1995 and are still growing. Yet how good an education they get is not well documented. Now, however, as the first wave reach their 20s, a glimpse of how they might turn out, academically and socially, is beginning to take shape...
...various companies and be available in many local stores in a wide price range. With the help of community groups and fund raisers, your school should be able to provide uniforms to families who cannot afford them and to keep some on hand at school for days when students turn up out of uniform...