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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert M. Bunker '39, of West Roxbury and Winthrop House, was chosen Chairman by the Junior Album Committee yesterday. Bunker was Chairman of the 1939 Freshman Redbook and is now Lampoon Ibis and a member of the Student Council...
...triangular debate, a traditional feature of the Big Three debating season, was established early in the century. The men chosen for positions on the two Harvard teams receive prize medals from an endowment fund left to the Council by T. Jefferson Coolidge...
...elections for next year following the discussion, John L. Donnell '40 was chosen President and Templeton Smith '40 was named Vice-President, Donald MacD. D. Thurber '40 was elected Memorial Society Secretary, while Cranston E. Jones '40 and Alfred W. Putnam '41 will find positions as Treasurer and Archivist...
...experience at the bar I had never heard such an astonishing statement. . . . There are other men without number who have sought legal advice to avoid or delay the law, have lent a willing ear to tactics or procrastination, have stooped to pleas denying mental or moral responsibility or have chosen the coward's course of flight from the country or from life. . . . Never once has he faltered. Never once has he asked consideration, much less mercy, for himself. With unbroken fortitude he has endured the shattering fall from his high estate and faced the pitiless publicity, the universal stares...
...took place in his stories when they appeared in print. If he gave one of his characters a highball, the drink became a glass of lemonade. In those days a Post character might kill Indians, but he could not smoke a cigaret. Last week a collection of 22 stories chosen from the 234 published in last year's Saturday Evening Post revealed how greatly they had changed since that genteel period. Post characters in 1937 not only drank, smoked and swindled, but in one story (George Sessions Perry's Edgar and the Dank Morass) a backwoods sweetheart behaved...