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Throughout its history, Harvard College has suffered the effects of a "social cleaver." In the mid-eighteenth century the college president personally listed students, when they enrolled, in order of their social rank or, to be precise, "to the Dignity of the Familie whereto the students severally belonged." The social list was printed in the college catalogue for all to see. The creme de la creme were placed at the top, followed by the social outcasts who attended Harvard because of academic merit. The social list determined precedence in table seating and service during meals, position in academic processionals...
Before the center's opening "there was no whereto go," says George R. Greenidge Jr., the center'sdirector of youth programs. "Families have alwayshad it rough in these communities. A lot offamilies don't have money...
...best of them. InCrimson editorial debates, on the otherhand, I was from the start, against my desires orintentions, cast on the right. I've developed areputation in Crimson circles, at least, asan incipient neo-conservative. This I deny, and ifany of you wish to talk about it, you know whereto reach...
...risk the possibility that the wicked uncle's soul might thus reach heaven. "No./ Up sword, and know thou a more horrid hent;/ When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage . . . / Then trip him, that . . . / his soul may be as damn'd and black/ As hell, whereto it goes...
...undergraduates entering Harvard were ranked by the president according to their social standing: "to the Dignity and the Familie whereto the students severally belonged." Ranking determined room assignments, seating and serving order at dinner, chapel seating, class seating and even the marching order at college processions. This practice continued into the early 1800s, when it was terminated largely due to the outrage of families whose sons had been placed low on the list...