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  2. Rag (student society) - Wikipedia

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    Rag (student society) Rags are student-run charitable fundraising organisations that are widespread in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Some are run as student societies whilst others sit with campaigns within their student unions. Most universities in the UK and Ireland, as well as some in the Netherlands and the Commonwealth countries of South ...

  3. Ragging - Wikipedia

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    Ragging is the term used for the so-called " initiation ritual" practiced in higher education institutions in India, Pakistan, [1] and Sri Lanka. The practice is similar to hazing in North America, fagging in the UK, bizutage in France, praxe in Portugal, and other similar practices in educational institutions across the world.

  4. Ragged school - Wikipedia

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    Ragged Schools became the Shaftesbury Society, which merged with John Grooms in 2007 and adopted the name Livability. Ragged schools were charitable organisations dedicated to the free education of destitute children in 19th-century Britain. The schools were developed in working-class districts and intended for society's most impoverished ...

  5. The Rag - Wikipedia

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    The Rag was an underground newspaper published in Austin, Texas from 1966–1977. The weekly paper covered political and cultural topics that the conventional press ignored, such as the growing antiwar movement, the sexual revolution, gay liberation, and drug culture. It encouraged these political constituencies and countercultural communities ...

  6. Student activism - Wikipedia

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    Student politics of Bangladesh is reactive, confrontational and violent. Student organizations act as the armament of the political parties they are part of. Over the years, political clashes and factional feuds in the educational institutes killed many, seriously hampering the academic atmosphere.

  7. LSE Students' Union - Wikipedia

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    The London School of Economics Students' Union (sometimes referred to as LSESU) is the representative and campaigning body for students at the London School of Economics (LSE). Like other students' unions, it also funds and facilitates student activities of campus, including societies, sports clubs through the Athletics Union (AU), the Media ...

  8. The Strenuous Life - Wikipedia

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    The Strenuous Life. " The Strenuous Life " is the name of a speech given by the then New York Governor, later the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt in Chicago, Illinois, on April 10, 1899. Based upon his personal experiences, he argued that strenuous effort and overcoming hardship were ideals to be embraced by Americans ...

  9. Student society - Wikipedia

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    A student society, student association, university society, student club, university club, or student organization is a society or an organization, operated by students at a university, college, or other educational institution, whose membership typically consists only of students and/or alumni . Early notable types of student societies include ...