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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, '04, was not there. Neither was honeymooning Son John, '38. But Harvard's reuning alumni had the Roosevelts very much in mind when they gathered in Soldiers Field last week for the annual class-day parade and confetti fight. They spoke their minds with missiles more punishing than confetti...
...employer's son receive their diplomas. Next day he headed his "Today" column with: "An interesting young graduate is Randolph Apperson Hearst, one of Mr. & Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's five sons. Another, particularly interesting to this writer, is Seward S. Brisbane, who made the class-day speech...
...seven men elected to the Class-Day Committee are as follows: John Newlin Trainer, Jr., of New York City; Harwood Ellis, of Brookline; Richard Chanler Aldrich, of Barrytown, New York; David Cobb, of Barnstable; Arthur Lancaster, Watkins, of Arlington; Charles Fred Richards, of New York City; and Thomas Edward Farrell, of Oswego, New York...
...First Class-fast, luxuriously equipped extra-fare "limiteds." Second Class-standard Pullmans on slower trains. Third Class-day coaches. Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission, overlord of railroad management, decided to assay the democracy of first class U. S. transportation. Though nobody had complained of a 40-year practice, the Commission ordered an investigation into the extra fares required for transportation on some carriers' best trains. Section IV of the Transportation Act specifies that through fares must not exceed the aggregate of the intermediate fares between any two points. The I. C. Commissioners suspected that certain roads charged through...
...Friday issue. Oddly enough your correspondent seems to have hit upon the answer to his own conundrum, without, of course, being able to recognize it when he saw it. If Catholics are sportsmen enough to become members or captains of the athletic teams, and gentlemen enough to be made class-day marshals, they are certain of a warm standing-welcome from all their (normal) fellow undergraduates. While as far as the faculty are concerned (being mostly reasonable men) all they are likey to demand in addition--since fortunately the University is no longer fettered by that rather unpleasant creed...