Word: pierian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite Brustein's comment, of course, a lack of academic arts offerings didn't seem to deter dedicated Harvard and Radcliffe students in the past. Without University sanction, students founded the Pierian Sodality (now the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra), the Glee Club, and a multitude of other art performance groups...
...them) had only two names, not the three (George Washington Pierce, George Lyman Kittredge, Charles Townsend Coppland) that had distinguished their predecessors. The clubs carried on, but as D.U. member Peter S. Prescott '57 insists. "It was impossible to underestimate their importance;" they were rapidly giving way to mere Pierian organizations-The Crimson, for one, which underwent in great boom in the 1950's. This period saw the birth of "diversity," a phrase that replaced "exclusively" on the tongues of Harvard men. True, the diversity went only so far (leaf through a 1950s vintage Yearbook some time; a Black face...
...Pierian Foundation funded the organization's journey to Berlin in fall '78, "severely draining" the foundation's funds, Everbach added. The foundation currently "provides continuity in the changing HRO student administration, serving basically an advisory capacity," Everbach said...