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Members also composed much poetry and song dedicated to their secrecy. The following poem, dated 1909, was written in their record book: All jolly Clubbers off on a spree Out from Cambridge, in Wellesley Not at all where we said we would be Sssh – ssssh – sssssh!... Our steps fly to the Worcester Cars that we have grown so used to Our blackballed friends are always on the car Yet cheerfully we meet them and With pleasant lies we greet them And we go, and none shall Tell them where...
...spree” in Wellesley refers to their “party house,” that year the Longfellow House in Wellesley Hills. As described in The Club’s by-laws, each year the members rented a home in an upscale suburb, like Wellesley, Gloucester, or Lincoln. There, they’d host “house parties” every few weeks. These parties were no mere daytrip; they usually lasted from Friday evening to Sunday morning. In addition, members also often congregated in the homes of other members...
...says. “Cambridge historically has not asked the hard questions—where is this money going to?”Green points to the city’s school budget as an example of its inefficient spending practices. “We’re paying Wellesley prices for Chelsea schools,” he says.To promote his platform, Green has spent most of his campaign canvassing voters door-to-door, assisted by a staff of about a dozen volunteers. “Unless you sit there and talk to the voters one-on-one, you can?...
...Sheldon’s views used to be endorsed by many university officials, who offered up the literal student body for examination. Radcliffe, too, took these risque photos from 1931 until 1961, when the Harvard and Radcliffe health services merged. The Seven Sister colleges picked up the practice after Wellesley College started it in the late 1920s, and sent training materials about posture to other women’s colleges. Luckily for Radcliffe women, their pictures were strictly health-related and Sheldon could not get a hold of their photos for his never completed “Atlas of Women...
...said Pamela J. Worth, a marcher who recently graduated from Smith College. “It sounded like a worthy cause,” said Oludamini D. Ogunnaike ’07, president of the Harvard African Students Association, which organized the walk in collaboration with Nandita Dinesha, a Wellesley College senior. The group, Ogunnaike said, wanted “to help make it happen.” Civil war has plagued northern Uganda for the past 19 years. The LRA, led by the self-proclaimed prophet Joseph Kony, routinely abducts children into its ranks, often forcing them to kill...