Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unselective, poorly organized, overloaded with names and figures, America's 60 Families is good muckraking. Lundberg's collection of "conspicuous wastes" would have warmed the heart of the late Thorstein Veblen (Theory of the Leisure Class). He managed, for instance, to "isolate 723 bathrooms in the various Du Pont establishments, at which point, with much ground remaining to be covered, the quest was regretfully terminated...
Camille Chautemps, France's moderate and middle-class Premier, had struggled for months with his Communist and Socialist bedfellows to give France a "pause" from the New Deal measures inaugurated 19 months ago under France's first Socialist Premier, Leon Blum. Early this winter the "pause" was giving French businessmen a moderate return of confidence, and the treasury situation was improving under Finance Minister Georges Bonnet although the franc was weak. In the last few weeks, this recovery was halted by a new wave of strikes...
...there now exists less sentiment of "classmates, just classmates" than before the consummation of President Lowell's supreme segregation. This makes sense a priori. Put a man in one of the Houses for three years, and he is certain to come out considering himself not a member of the Class of 19. . as much as a member of blank House, graduating...
This state of affairs may well point towards action beneficial to Harvard and to House. Energetic Houses might shortly set up Alumni Associations. The continued unity and loyalty of the Class as a whole will continue to exist such as it may. Beyond this there would be born after graduating a closer unity and loyalty of the members of a House in any year. If this loyalty finds expression through the purse, such expression helps both the House and Harvard...
Austie Harding and Joe Patrick, scoring three goals apiece, led the Varsity hockey team to a 10-2 victory over Brown last night. Never hard pressed, the Crimson exhibited first class hockey only in occasional spurts...