Word: benchleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year's annual banquet is a landmark in the history of Harvard's comic magazine. Nathaniel G. Benchley '38, President, announced last night that among the speakers and former Lampooners present would be famous cartoonist Gluyas Williams '10. Likewise present will be John P. Marquand '14, author of the recent best seller "The Late George Apley...
Officers of the club were elected last night and include Bruce Foster '39 and Cleveland Amory '39, co-presidents, Albert Stickney, Jr. '38, vice-president, William A. Burnham '38, secretary, and Nathaniel G. Benchley '38, treasurer...
From questionnaires sent out to his classmates, Author Tunis learned that most of Harvard 1911 read no books, boast no intellectual diversions, live generally mediocre lives. By a "personal, house-to-house canvass" Classmate Benchley collected a grim set of 1912 confessions: "I have three children, all of whom look like me. "I have no children, all of them Chinese. (It is only fair to state that this came from a Chinese classmate.) "I have two daughters, one of whom thinks I went to Colgate and the other of whom goes around with a Princeton man. "The only date...
...college, and two years later they changed the name of sauerkraut to 'Liberty Cabbage' ! "I haven't read any books. . . . "No spik Engliss." Harvardman Tunis concluded that the Class of 1911 comprised a "bunch of contented cows" who had accomplished almost nothing. "Of course, "retorted Harvardman Benchley in The Twelve Twenty-Five Express, "any member of 1912 could have predicted this ... as early as 1909." Cracked he: "If I were a calamity-howler, I could show that 72% haven't got $3,-000,000 to their name, 91% can't juggle, and that we haven...
...Nathaniel Goddard ("Nat") Benchley, Harvard '38, was elected president of the Lampoon last December. t Fan Stylian Noli, exiled in 1924. Also expected at the 1912 Reunion is U. S. Minister to Albania Hugh Gladney Grant. **Kermit Roosevelt, who in 1929 while on an expedition in the Himalayas with Brother Theodore & Classmate Charles Suydam Cutting shot (not "caught") a Giant Panda, now on exhibition in Chicago's Field Museum...