Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fostered feelings of security and self-satisfaction. Harvard hired maids to clean student rooms and make beds until 1953. Schoolwork sometimes interceded in the quest for a good time, but several class members allude to the easy availability of the "gentleman's C." The early '50s were the golden age of the college prank. For example, two Harvard band members were arrested in October 1953 for staging an impromptu 3 a.m. concert on Yale's Old Campus. The most elaborate stunt may have been The Crimson's theft of the Lampoon's symbol, its beloved Ibis, in April...
...class full of success stories, one stands out particularly but not surprisingly. Edward M. Kennedy left Harvard for good in 1956 and at the age of 30 in 1962, filled his brother John's seat in the Senate. He has remained there since. His classmates are acutely aware of his membership in their ranks. In their Class Report statements some urge him to bring even greater renown to the class, while other write things like "President Carter has been a disaster for this country and I don't think our classmate's performance would be much better...
Class of '54 members, some wearing "veritas" ties, stood on the steps humming their way through "10,000 Men of Harvard," remembering a snatch of the lyrics now and then. Children, who are separated by age into the Green, Blue, Orange, Red and "Youngest" groups, milled around too, waiting for the beginnings of the program of activities which will separate them from their parents for much of the week...
...handsome and a little depressed by nature, but anxious to please and in this pleasantness somewhat impersonal. For this reason he was doomed to more fornication than he wished." Other, more working class men follow, and sometimes they are far, far less pleasant. They all receive sympathy; in old age one must take people as one finds them...
...music to the females, who slit open tree bark after they have been impregnated and store their fertilized eggs there. A few weeks later, both parents die. But cicada life goes on as the eggs hatch. The newborn nymphs drop to the ground, burrow, and the age-old cycle starts anew...