Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The only other subjects of concern in a relatively quiet year also sound vaguely familiar to more modern ears--the rising cost of attending Harvard, and the lack of adequate medical facilities. Faced with high tuition and service charges under depression conditions, many concluded that, while its President spoke about...
Effects of the Depression
The depression continued to affect the life and the practical concerns of the students. Room rents went down and scholarships went up, but the general economic precariousness could not be winked at. The great question was whether the University's "emergency jobs" would be kept going in the face of...
The Class of 1934 weathered the depression during college; faced the Second World War shortly afterward; came home to mold their lives during the cold war; and finally, survived the ravages of the Program for Harvard College. But their most crucial battle of all, one whose experience undoubtedly drew them...
The Ivy Orator, John B. White, could still joke on Class Day about problems which were all too soon to pass well beyond the laughing stage. Depression or no, the college years were, for the Class of 1934, truly the halcyon days compared with what lay before. As White put...