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Writing in his 25th reunion classbook last year, Cross said "A college today stands uneasily between the turbulence we now take for granted in adolescence and the disarray of contemporary society. It's unreasonable to expect that most students will experience four 'bright college years.' ... Young people today find themselves in a society both more affluent, and so powerful, and less sure of itself (probably rightly so) than any previous American society. I hope our prescription for college students, college faculty, and college administrators can be not purgative so much as energizing...
Thirty-seven years earlier, his Annapolis classbook had taken a curiously prophetic bearing on the sailor who was to lead his nation out of the greatest naval disaster in its history. "He is a man," it had said, "of cheerful yesterdays and confident tomorrows." So he proved to be. As new Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, Nimitz set out first to restore the Navy's shattered nerve-and then to restore the Navy. "I have complete confidence in you men," he briskly assured the ashen-faced staff at Pearl Harbor. "We've taken a terrific wallop...
...Dennis, former editor of the "Midwest Municipal Utilities," has been named editor of the classbook for Class 7-43, Company Dog, of NTS (Communications...
Expected to follow in the tradition set by "First Cruise," classbook for the entering naval unit, the forthcoming publication will feature cartoons by Walt Disney depicting Donald Duck dressed as a typical student officer, undergoing the various rigors and trials of indoctrinal training. Pictures of each student will appear in the book, as well as descriptions of an indoctrinee's life...
...Central Africa, the short, stocky, reddish-haired white man who reached Manhattan on a slow transatlantic boat last week is known as The Young Python. But his passport, the Social Register, the 1914 Harvard Classbook, the tax rolls of Rockland County, N. Y. and the corporation registry of Lugene (swank Manhattan opticians) all list him as Frederic Grosvenor Carnochan. Always well off, he could afford to become an amateur ethnologist. During the past decade he concentrated on the Wanyamwesi, a long-nosed, curly-haired tribe of 4,000,000 members who inhabit 30,000 sq. mi. south of Lake Victoria...