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...Arthur Adams '99, who was secretary of his class, and who will be Chief Marshal at Commencement this spring, and Dean Greenough. C. J. Hubbard '24, First Marshal of the Senior class, will act as chairman for the evening, and will talk informally on the future of the class. Corliss Lamont '24 will present a financial report of the class, dealing especially with the question of Senior insurance...
...being realiged. Probably the most unusual of the presentations were numerous rolls of tissue paper, which were indignantly returned by the upper-classmen. Cheers were given for the more philanthropic members of the Freshman Class after they had contributed dollar bills, and according to an announcement by Corliss Lamont, the class treasurer, a special meeting of the Class Committee will be held today to consider making two unusually generous Freshmen who each gave five dollars, honorary members of the class...
...Professor Charles Homer Haskins A.M. '08, who recently resigned from the position of Dean of the Graduates School of Arts and Sciences. The committee as it now stands is composed o. Professor Haskins. Professor Bliss Perry,. C. P. Fordyce '23, Secretary to the Governing Board of the Union, Corliss Lamont '24, chairman of the Undergraduate Committee, and F. A. O. Schwarz...
...younger son, Corliss, is temporarily engaged in a job less thoroughly understood by the American public. He is a senior at Harvard. His job might possibly be described as the pursuit of truth. But there appeared, last week, to be a difference of opinion between Mr. Corliss Lament and certain Harvard authorities as to the limits within which the truth might be publicly pursued...
...Corliss Lamont is the most conspicuous of many prominent undergraduates in many colleges who are in revolt against what they call the "stupidity" of preceding undergraduate generations. They have a genial contempt for the traditional extra-curriculum fetish of the campus-the emphasis on athletics, college papers, clubs, "honors." Their informal program is to go into their extra-curriculum activities, beat the campus boys at their own game, and then, with the prestige so acquired, to sound the praises of more excellent things, such as the pursuit of truth...