Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...senior societies take their men almost exclusively from the ranks of junior fraternities. Each society has a distinct character: e.g., Keys (Scroll & Key) usually picks rich, convivial boys. Bones chooses campus big shots, almost invariably taps the football captain-elect, chairman of the News, chairman of the Lit. head of Dwight Hall (campus Y. M. C. A.), leader of the Glee Club, a self-supporting student. Quip-sters say that Bones always taps 13 big men, one unknown and one Armenian...
...clock brought a few surprises. No fewer than nine men turned down Bones (including Kingman Brewster, whom a Bones man found in the News office, and Football Captain-elect Harold Whiteman, who went Keys). Of those who accepted Bones, four were ringleaders in the Political Union. Last man tapped (highest honor) was Junior Prom Chairman Laurence Gotzian Tighe Jr., a functionary usually nabbed by Keys...
Friday night, after registration day was over and a buffet dinner had been served, the alumni trooped from the Harvard Club to the Metropolitain Opera House to attend a symposium addressed by Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory; Francis T. Spaulding '16, Dean-elect of the School of Education; Dean Donham; and Bruce C. Hopper, associate professor of Government...
...modern civilization were covered in last night's symposium at the Metropolitan Opera House on "Our Expanding Horizons," attended by close to 3000 Crimson Alumni. Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Directory of the Harvard Observatory, dealt with the world of science; Francis T. Spaulding '17, Dean-Elect of the Graduate School of Education, discussed the problem of our secondary schools; Wallace B. Donham '98, Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, described industrial conditions in America; and Bruce C. Hopper '18, associate professor of Government, gave a rapid survey of recent events in Europe. President Conant...
...Public Schools, Francis T. Spaulding '17, Dean- Elect of the Graduate School of Education...