Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant urged the members of this year's graduating class to "weight the present against the future, the claims of the individual spirit against those of society" when they are planning their lives, in his Baccalaureate sermon in Memorial Church yesterday afternoon...
Nearly 800 Seniors and their families and friends heard the President advise the class of 1939 to resist "the impact of the immediate present, the corrosive atmosphere of potential strife," and to develop their own talents and individualities...
Turning to the various positions which will be occupied by the members of the graduating class in the future, President Conant declared that "The fate of our free institutions may well depend quite as much on the honesty, conscientiousness and effectiveness of the man of business as on the proposals of the politician and the administrative decisions of the government official...
...Baccalaureate service was conducted by the Reverend Dr. Charles E. Park, of the First Church in Boston, a member of the Harvard Board of Preachers. President Conant held a reception for the members of the graduating class at his house on Quincy Street following the service...
Seniors, headed by Richard H. Sullivan '39, First Marshal of his class, narched around the old quadrangle of the Yard, saluting the statue of John Harvard in passing, before entering the Church and occupying the front news...