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...building era: the Houses, Memorial Church, the Faculty Club, Dillon Field House, and the new Indoor Athletic Building were all in the process of completion; and the edifices themselves were perhaps symbolic of the tone of undergraduate life. In two important spheres there was dissatisfaction with the status quo and yet something of a reluctance to change...
...junior year, the only College issue that received much notice was the scrubwoman scandal, which wasn't resolved until about a year later. The scandal broke just two days after the Soldiers Field Locker Building was completely destroyed in a three-alarm fire, after which Clarence Dillon '05 offered funds for a new field house. Then on 17 January 1930, Boston papers revealed that 20 cleaning women in Widener had been dis- charged by the University. Apparently their salaries were not up to the legal minimum wage, and the University was unwilling to raise them by some two cents...
Batchelder became '31's first president after a hotly contested election, and Phillips Finlay and Dillon were elected to Vice-President and Secretary, respectively. Finlay also found success in other fields of endeavor as he was named freshman golf captain. In the 1928 U.S. Amateur, Finlay advanced as far as the semi-finals, where he was finally put out by Bobby Jones...
...afternoon, the Class of 1931 will hold a Symposium in New Lecture Hall at 2:30 on "Harvard and Thereafter." Six members of '31, including C. Douglas Dillon, the United States Ambassador to France, and David Reisman, noted sociologist and writer, will speak...
Acting as chief marshal for the class will be C. Douglas Dillon, U.S. envoy to France and chairman of Dillon, Read and Company. He follows in the footsteps of Robert H. Bradford '23, ex-Governor of Massachusetts, and William G. Salton-stall '28, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy, a well-known New Hampshire boys school...