Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the twenty-fifth reunion class comes back to sing "Fair Harvard" and glory in the memories of the good old days, they will start out with one distinction already theirs. 1931 will be the largest reunion class in Harvard history, with its attendance exceeding...
Since the organizers of the reunion are all Harvardmen, they have figured out everything. If rain should kill "jamboree" proceedings, Kismet will be given in the afternoon instead of the evening, as is planned for fair weather. "That way, how can we lose?" asks Pliny Jewell, Jr., optimistic reunion committee chairman...
Brought together by the well-meaning Fair Campaign Practices Committee Inc. and its well-meaning chairman, Cincinnati's Mayor Charles P. Taft (brother of the late U.S. Senator Robert Taft), Democrat Paul Butler and Republican Len Hall signed, with telegenic flourishes, a fair-play code: "I shall condemn any dishonest or unethical practice." etc., etc. Then, while Republican Chief Hall stood quietly to one side, Democratic Leader Butler faced the bank of television cameras, reached into his pocket and whipped out a prepared statement. Cried he: "Fraudulent and baseless charges like 'party of treason' and 'traitorous...
...stubborn, dogmatic, and incredulous. A portrait painted in such colors clashes harshly with the glib flatteries and broad grins of Moscow's Abbott and Costello, and also with just such Russian ploys as the armaments reduction. America becomes the conservative and unimaginative, Russia appears the innovator, the offerer, the fair-haired caretaker of the peace dove...
Invariably, there are two or three outstanding faculty members nominated and duly approved by the Board of Overseers. This year, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Francis Lee Higginson Professor emeritus, would seem to stand only a fair chance. Odds are somewhat better on Douglas W. Horton, Dean of the rising Divinity School, or traditional favorite Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor, who retires this year...