Word: album
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years well and enjoyably spent will bring Alumni to the point where they are glad to part with hard cash to enable posterity to participate in the same experience. But memory is a fragile thing. It must be stimulated and refreshed by such things as reunions, class secretaries and albums. Of all these the Class Album is probably the most important, because it preserves for the graduate an attractive and condensed record of the accomplishments of his class and contains the pictures of old and cherished friends. It is his most concrete tie to the past, and the source...
...University's stake in the publication of an Album is greater than that of any other group, including the classes concerned. This is particularly true as the classes of '42 to '49 did not see Harvard on its best behavior. Accelerated courses, show lines, and crowded rooms are not the usual concomitants of happy college days. Men who were in Harvard during and immediately after the war may be inclined to look back on their undergraduate days as an extension of Army training or as just another vocational course. An Album, artificial cohesion though it might he will...
...Album's troubles began two weeks ago, when the University declined to release to the publication's business staff a list of purveyors. Having in its possession a slightly out-of-date listing this particular Album might be able to publish an emaciated version without the use of new purveyor lists, but Album editors of future years will face extinction almost certainly unless some source of revenue is found beyond that of subscriptions. The University has apparently had two feelings on the subject of purveyor lists; economic and ethical. It was felt, first, that money spent by purveyors on Album...
After a conference with Dean Bender and Robert B. Watson '37, associate dean of the College, this afternoon, Rothenberg, Dailey, and Leventhal stated that the 1951 Red Book was still definitely out of the picture, but that "alternative methods" of financing the 1947-48 Class Album, suspended last week, were being explored...
...understood that among the methods under discussion was one which would bring the Album into an entirely new perspective with regards the University...