Word: grad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn from this ghastly vision, the past takes on a new allure. But it is a mirage, similar to the old grad's beery haze, which, as it filters dreams from experience, hides from us, at a most critical period, the realization of life's essential and incessant cruelty...
After fulfilling the typical intellectual duties of the "old grad" Monday night at "Pops", the Class of 1931 turned to the Essex County Club yesterday to indulge in the more informal pleasures usually associated with twenty-fifth reunions...
...word, the old grad has grown...
Although alumni fund-raising now may have the same objective and the same devasting efficiency as ever, some of the tactics employed have definitely changed. The last two decades have seen, along with the general maturing of the old grad, a conspicuous weakening of the concept of Class solidarity. Consequently, Class agents and other apostles of the ancien regime, finding that the "good old '28" ploy doesn't work so well any more, have had to look around for a new pitch...
...would have, say, 40 members. Normally these members would get together perhaps twice a year, once at a Christmas party for present and prospective College students and once at a dinner meeting to be addressed by a member of the Harvard Faculty. In the old days the old grad's Club activity would be limited to these two meetings. He would insist, moreover, that the Faculty member sent out to speak was a football coach, and that he brought with him movies of the past season's games...