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From its beginnings in the 18th century when a group of undergraduates met for dinner over a roasted pig and decided to form a social fraternity, the Porcellian Club had never elected a Black member. But after 192 years, that tradition changed last fall.

After the five week "punching season" of cocktail parties and dinners, the "Pork," the oldest and most exclusive of Harvard's final clubs, elected William Bette Jr. '86, an Adams House sophomore. "You can't separate being Black from being the first [Black] person in the Porcellien Club," Batts remarked. "I'd like to thick, for my own sanity, that I was elected for reasons other than being Black."

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As academic discoveries go, this was only an "almost" after all. In February, Peter J. Seng, an 'English professor at Connecticut College, announced the discovery in Harvard's Houghton Library of a long-forgotten, unpublished poem by William Wordsworth.

Seng's plans to publish the poem, however, were derailed in April, after a Cornell professor wrote him a letter informing him that he had already handled and was aware of the poem.

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Joel I. Goodfader resuscitated the Harvard International Review, a monthly journal on international politics. As one of the editors, he lined up major figures to contribute to the review, including Atlanta Mayer Andrew. Young, Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, and Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez. Staff members said he was an inspiration.

Joel Goodfader was also not a student.

When the rest of the staff and the College found out, heads--or rather Goodfader's head--rolled. Positions on University publications are only open to Harvard students, and Epps ordered the 23-year-old Georgetown University graduate off campus after finding out about his charade. Staff members on the Review were in shock over the incident and said they never suspected the masquerade for a minute before Goodfader confessed.

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Scores of famous professors and academics have not been able to pull the trick.

Instead, it took the efforts of one of America's great writers--Eudora Welty--to catapsult a Harvard University Press publication onto the New York Times bestseller list for the first time in the scholarly press's history. One Writer's Beginnings, Welty's autobiographical account of her childhood, has dotted the list for 13 weeks this spring; the book was based on material from the author's presentations at the first William E. Massey lecture series at Harvard