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Signet society

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The Signet Society of Harvard University was founded in 1870 by members of the class of 1871. [1]

83 relations: Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Adam Gopnik, Alessandra Stanley, Amy Brenneman, Andrew Weil, Andy Borowitz, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Baroque, Beauty and the Geek, Benazir Bhutto, Bill Weld, Caspar Weinberger, Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Joseph Bonaparte, Charles William Eliot, Chuck Schumer, Conan O'Brien, Conrad Aiken, Derek Bok, Donal Logue, Donald Hall, Doric order, Earl Derr Biggers, Elizabethan Club, Fareed Zakaria, Frank Rich, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Plimpton, George Santayana, Gothic Revival architecture, Harvard Crimson, Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club, Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra, Harvard University, Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Hendrik Hertzberg, Ionic order, James Agee, James Bryant Conant, James Murdoch, Jay Rockefeller, Jill Abramson, John Ashbery, John Berendt, John Hall Wheelock, John Lithgow, John Updike, Joseph Lelyveld, Leonard Bernstein, List of 30 Rock characters, ..., Mark Penn, Mason Hammond, Natalie Portman, Neil L. Rudenstine, Norman Mailer, Officially unrecognized Harvard College social clubs, Owen Gingerich, Palladian architecture, Peter J. Gomes, Rashida Jones, Reihan Salam, Richard Tofel, Robert Frost, Samuel Eliot Morison, Seamus Heaney, T. S. Eliot, The Harvard Advocate, The Harvard Lampoon, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Official Preppy Handbook, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Kuhn, Tom Werner, Tommy Lee Jones, Virgil, Wallace Stevens, Walter Isaacson, Whit Stillman, William James, Yale University, Yo-Yo Ma, 30 Rock. Expand index (33 more) »

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Abbott Lawrence Lowell (December 13, 1856January 6, 1943) was a U.S. educator and legal scholar.

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Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik (born August 24, 1956) is an American writer and essayist.

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Alessandra Stanley

Alessandra Stanley is an American journalist.

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Amy Brenneman

Amy Frederica Brenneman (born June 22, 1964) is an American actress, writer, and producer.

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Andrew Weil

Andrew Thomas Weil (born June 8, 1942) is an American celebrity doctor who is a physician, author, spokesperson, and broadly described "guru" of the alternative medical brands: holistic health and integrative medicine, whose name also constitutes an emerging brand of healthcare services and products in these fields.

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Andy Borowitz

Andy Borowitz (born January 4, 1958) is an American writer, comedian, satirist, and actor.

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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a highly ornate and often extravagant style of architecture, art and music that flourished in Europe from the early 17th until the late 18th century.

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Beauty and the Geek

Beauty and the Geek is a reality television series that is an international franchise, the U.S version is shown on The CW.

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Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto (بينظير ڀُٽو; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996.

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Bill Weld

William Floyd Weld (born July 31, 1945) is an American attorney, businessman, and politician who was the 68th Governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997.

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Caspar Weinberger

Caspar Willard "Cap" Weinberger (August 18, 1917 – March 28, 2006) was an American politician and businessman.

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Charles Eliot Norton

Charles Eliot Norton (November 16, 1827 – October 21, 1908) was an American author, social critic, and professor of art.

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Charles Joseph Bonaparte

Charles Joseph Bonaparte (June 9, 1851June 28, 1921) was a French-American lawyer and political activist for progressive and liberal causes.

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Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot (March 20, 1834 – August 22, 1926) was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869.

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Chuck Schumer

Charles Ellis Schumer (born November 23, 1950) is an American politician of the Democratic Party serving as the senior United States Senator from New York, a seat he was first elected to in 1998.

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Conan O'Brien

Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer.

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Conrad Aiken

Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play, and an autobiography.

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Derek Bok

Derek Curtis Bok (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator, and the former president of Harvard University.

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Donal Logue

Donal Francis Logue (born February 27, 1965 or 1966) (sources vary) is a Canadian-American film and television actor, producer and writer.

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Donald Hall

Donald Andrew Hall Jr. (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic.

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Doric order

The Doric order was one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.

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Earl Derr Biggers

Earl Derr Biggers (August 26, 1884 – April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright.

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Elizabethan Club

The Elizabethan Club is a social club at Yale University named for Queen Elizabeth I and her era.

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Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (born January 20, 1964) is an Indian-American journalist and author.

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Frank Rich

Frank Hart Rich Jr. (born June 2, 1949) is an American essayist, liberal / progressive op-ed columnist and writer notable for having held various positions within The New York Times from 1980 to 2011, and a producer of television series and documentaries at HBO.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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George Plimpton

George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor and occasional amateur sportsman.

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George Santayana

Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known in English as George Santayana (December 16, 1863September 26, 1952), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England.

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Harvard Crimson

The Harvard Crimson are the athletic teams of Harvard University.

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Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club

The Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC), founded in 1908, is an umbrella theater student organization at Harvard College with the purpose of assisting all theatrical projects at the college.

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Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra

The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) is a collegiate symphony orchestra comprising Harvard students and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hasty Pudding Theatricals

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, known informally simply as The Pudding, is a theatrical student society at Harvard University, known for its burlesque crossdressing musicals.

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Hendrik Hertzberg

Hendrik Hertzberg (born 1943) is an American liberalGranick, Jennifer and Sprigman, Christopher (2013-06-27), The New York Times journalist, best known as the principal political commentator for The New Yorker magazine.

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Ionic order

The Ionic order forms one of the three classical orders of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and the Corinthian.

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James Agee

James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic.

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James Bryant Conant

James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 – February 11, 1978) was an American chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.

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James Murdoch

James Rupert Jacob Murdoch (born 13 December 1972) is a British-American businessman, the younger son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, the chief executive officer (CEO) of 21st Century Fox, and chairman of Sky plc.

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Jay Rockefeller

John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV (born June 18, 1937) is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from West Virginia (1985-2015).

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Jill Abramson

Jill Ellen Abramson (born March 19, 1954) is an American author and journalist.

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John Ashbery

John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet.

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John Berendt

John Berendt (born December 5, 1939) is an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.

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John Hall Wheelock

John Hall Wheelock (September 9, 1886 – March 22, 1978) was an American poet.

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John Lithgow

John Arthur Lithgow (born, 1945) is an American actor, musician, comedian, poet, author, and singer.

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John Updike

John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.

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Joseph Lelyveld

Joseph Lelyveld (born April 5, 1937) was an American executive editor of the New York Times from 1994 to 2001, and interim executive editor in 2003 after the resignation of Howell Raines.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist.

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List of 30 Rock characters

30 Rock is an American television comedy series created by Tina Fey, which aired on NBC.

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Mark Penn

Mark J. Penn (born January 15, 1954) is an American former pollster, political strategist, and author.

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Mason Hammond

Mason Hammond (1903 – 13 October 2002), was an American educator and scholar.

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Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman (born Neta-Lee Hershlag on June 9, 1981) is an Israeli-American actress, film producer and director.

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Neil L. Rudenstine

Neil Leon Rudenstine (born January 21, 1935) is an American scholar, literary scholar, and administrator.

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Norman Mailer

Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist.

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Officially unrecognized Harvard College social clubs

Social clubs exist at Harvard College that are unrecognized by Harvard itself.

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Owen Gingerich

Owen Jay Gingerich (born 1930) is professor emeritus of astronomy and of the history of science at Harvard University and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

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Palladian architecture

Palladian architecture is a European style of architecture derived from and inspired by the designs of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580).

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Peter J. Gomes

Peter John Gomes (May 22, 1942 – February 28, 2011) was an American preacher and theologian, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School and Pusey Minister at Harvard's Memorial Church — in the words of Harvard's president "one of the great preachers of our generation, and a living symbol of courage and conviction.".

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Rashida Jones

Rashida Leah Jones (born February 25, 1976) is an American actress.

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Reihan Salam

Reihan Morshed Salam (born 29 December 1979) is a conservative American political commentator, columnist, and author.

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Richard Tofel

Richard Tofel is the general manager of ProPublica, a non-profit investigative journalism organization in New York City.

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Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet.

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Samuel Eliot Morison

Samuel Eliot Morison (July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976) was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history and American history that were both authoritative and popular.

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator.

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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".

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The Harvard Advocate

The Harvard Advocate, the art and literary magazine of Harvard College, is the oldest continuously published college art and literary magazine in the United States.

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The Harvard Lampoon

The Harvard Lampoon is an undergraduate humor publication founded in 1876 by seven undergraduates at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Official Preppy Handbook

The Official Preppy Handbook (1980) is a tongue-in-cheek humor reference guide edited by Lisa Birnbach, written by Jonathan Roberts, Carol McD.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American physicist, historian and philosopher of science whose controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom.

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Tom Werner

Thomas Charles Werner (born April 12, 1950) is an American television producer and businessman.

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Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro (traditional dates October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.

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Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet.

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Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson (born May 20, 1952)Millie Ball, The Times-Picayune, December 11, 2011.

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Whit Stillman

John Whitney "Whit" Stillman (born January 25, 1952) is an American writer-director known for his 1990 film Metropolitan, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the 1998 romantic drama The Last Days of Disco.

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William James

William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is a French-born American cellist.

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30 Rock

30 Rock is an American satirical television sitcom created by Tina Fey that ran on NBC from October 11, 2006, to January 31, 2013.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signet_society

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