Word: harvardman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once interested, Harvardman ('17) Atkinson fixed his sights on an aisle seat in New York. Getting there involved five years of apprenticeship on two Massachusetts papers and a brief digression as English instructor at Dartmouth. By 1922 he was within strolling distance of Broadway, editing the Sunday book section of the Times; and three years later, when the Times's Drama Critic Stark Young resigned, Atkinson took Young's place...
This was impressive enough. A more startling statistic still was the size of the fund, whose borrowers have rarely defaulted. When Ralph Lowell took over 37 years ago, the fund was a relatively piddling $238,000. By "simple New England prudence" (i.e., buying blue-chip stocks and bonds), Harvardman ('12) Lowell in his off hours has boosted the fund...
Harvard students, said President Nathan Pusey in a baccalaureate address, should have "the ability to speak the word God without reserve or embarrassment.'' Some clues to what the unembarrassed Harvardman may have in mind were offered last week in a special supplement to the commencement edition of the Harvard Crimson, the results of an 82-question survey of Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates. Notable items...
...merely an Administrative device to elicit alumni loyalty and contributions. Before the advent of the Houses, however, in the days when Seniors lived together in the Yard, there is good reason to believe that the Class did play an important part in the life and memories of the Harvardman...
...three rather flimsy and ludicrous arguments against any extension: "displacement of roommates,..adverse effect of women on the emotional tone of a House, and...increased conformity." How two or four more hours a week with women in the Houses could wreak such devastation to the moral fibre of the Harvardman was not explained...