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...better or worse, the Kroks stand apart from their colleagues at Harvard. They are the oldest of the small, closed-harmony singing groups on campus, known (increasingly derisively) as the a capella groups. The Kroks' polish and tour itinerary are both unmatched, and their repertoire of songs from the 1920s through the 1950s has the kind of universal appeal that the contemporary pop tunes of other groups can't quite muster. They are reputed to have the highest budget per capita of any student organization at Harvard. Still, the Kroks are, in the end, a singing group. Cufflinks and secret...
...what will the new boys learn? Krok history, to be sure, and the proper way to snap, to dress and to travel. They will learn how to sing ballads in Krok style and learn how to dance some of the finest moves of the 1920s with fellow "big galloofs." They will learn new heights of preppiness, hopping taxis to get to whatever downtown big-shot wants them, and how to tie a bow-tie without a mirror. Surely they will learn how to guzzle the Dark and Stormy, the drink of choice for the Kroks when they visit Bermuda, which...
...bulk of the archives consist of paper material, ranging from the original college charter to playbills from the 47 Club, a Radcliffe drama group formed in the 1920s...
...Lizard Lounge has a devoted, dreadlocked Cantabridgian following, but few Harvard types are cool enough to know about this avant-garde nest of musical experimentation. The lounge is 1920s Paris underground jumpstarted by a few decades, air-conditioned and in English. "Club d'Elf" performs mind-expanding electronica on Thursdays while Sundays see one of the best poetry jams in town, accompanied by the smooth Jeff Robinson Trio. Anyone can have a go: the atmosphere is hip yet forgiving...
...much, but it's a level not seen since the last speculative bubble burst, in 1987. And it's still growing, almost exponentially, rising faster than credit-card or mortgage debt. "We've had an expansion of margin debt the likes of which haven't been seen since the 1920s," says Tom Schlesinger, executive director of Financial Markets Center, a research institute...