Word: victorian
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...While AEPi has carved out a niche by “promoting Jewish culture and Jewish values,” according to Borschow, Sigma Chi and SAE strive to throw rush events that will entice the percentage of Harvard males who do go Greek. Sigma Chi owns a Victorian manse on Massachussetts Avenue, but as same-sex organizations without official group status, frat boys struggle with their inability to poster or use Harvard-owned space. Rush events vary from appetizers at Uno’s to paintball trips. Fraternities consider rush the start of their efforts to fill a social...
...when coming home from the Army for Christmas; the car he'd hitched a ride in was hit by a truck. The family had few resources, so for a dozen years, from age seven, Eric was raised at the Royal Orphanage in Wolverhampton, an institution he describes as "bleakly Victorian." The school was bleak and chilly. "I was cold until I was nineteen," Idle recalled, conjuring up the deprivations George Orwell wrote in an essay-memoir of his own educational incarceration, "Such, Such Were the Joys...
Dinners with the faculty in Victorian manors, bearded men in smoking jackets, pretentious banter over sherry carts—you won’t find any of these august fixtures in the Philosophy concentration. (There’s always the Divinity School and the Society of Fellows for that.) What you will find—in typical Harvard fashion—is a motley assortment of young and old minds passionately interested in what they do and, perhaps, a little out of step with the rest of the university. Even basic intellectual expression in the Philosophy department offers unique challenges...
ARTHUR BALFOUR AND ROBERT CECIL Ever heard the saying "Bob's your uncle"? It means "no problem" and refers to Cecil, a Victorian Prime Minister who named Balfour, his nephew, to a series of Cabinet posts...
...Teddy's sister Bamie on Long Island. After T.R. remarried, this time to his childhood sweetheart Edith Carow, Alice went to live with the couple and was eventually joined by five siblings. Teddy never mentioned Alice's deceased mother, a behavior Alice grew to describe as "dreadfully Victorian and mixed...