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Despite the undercurrent of seriousness and concern occasioned by the war crisis in Europe, the forty-third annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs got under way with a generally festive spirit, and the hilarious manual of Dr. Ralph S. Foss '03 set the tone for the gathering from the start...
...less conventional wire came to "Father Knickerbocker, care Ralph S. Foss or Howard Reid, Harvard Club," from Charles H. Watkins '09, chairman of the entertainment committee of Boston's Harvard Club. It read: "2 Aprosoxuals, 5 auhedonists, 4 serendiptists, total 11, arrive at Pennsylvania Junction nine five. Have Herediah harness roans to four-seated surrey to meet us . . . your local constable might be helpful because several flips already consumed at this early hour. Prepare warming pans to get dampness out of beds. We bring our own night pails." A welcoming committee 100 strong went to the station to meet...
Informality and good cheer will be the spirit of the meeting, although the three days are well studded with intellectual gatherings and stimulants. "Old Dr. Foss's Manual of Etiquette and Deportment," prepared for members of the Hospitality Committee, strikes the key-note with its number one rule "Love your fellow man. He is, after all, a Harvard...
More than thirty members of the Harvard faculty, headed by President Conant, will be on hand as a link between Widener Library and the Great White Way. Dr. Foss's manual has complete instructions as to how to handle these lofty representatives of Cambridge: "Do not get two professors together in the same crowd. They may sing. Merge all titles into 'Doctor.' Don't keep them up after 2 a.m. They ned time to organize their material for the next day's symposium...
...Lukas Foss attributed that apparent similarity to the folk tunes, declared, with an eye on Broadway and Hollywood: "I want to write in a modern idiom which appeals...