Word: esq
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...childish way, she created pet names for all her correspondents. Her cousin Emma Vaughan was variously "Toad", "Todkins", and "Toadlebinks"; her sister Vanessa was "Dolphin", "Sheepdog" or just "Nessa"; her brother Thoby was "Gribbs", "Grim", "Herbert", or "Thobs"; and she signed herself just about anything: "Billy Goat", "Goat", "Goatus Esq.", "Wallaby", "Kangaroo", "Apes", and so forth. Over half the letters in this volume are addressed to Violet Dickinson, a six foot two spinster aunt who seems to have served as Virginia's foster mother. In these, Virginia's childishness reaches its pack...
...aware that Harvard alumni have historically cultivated "class spirit," so beautifully satirized by the caricatures of "professional alumni" in John P. Marquand's H.M. Pulham, Esq. Such esprit de corps has traditionally been used as a fund-raising vehicle, and for this reason, there has been considerable alumni opposition to the abolition of the separate freshman year. However despite the fondest wishes of the Development Office and the Harvard College Fund, the "class identity" which F. Stanton Deland '36, chairman of the Board of Overseers, exhorts is being considerably eroded by the taking of leaves of absence. In fact, recent...