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...What are Harvardmen really like once they get out into the world? This week, in one of the most comprehensive class reports ever published-Harvard 1926, the Life and Opinions of a College Class, by Cornelius DuBois and Charles J. V. Murphy (Harvard University Press; $2.50)-readers could find out just what happens to Harvard's old grads in 25 years of worldly endeavor...
...their well-appointed homes (seven out of ten have radio-phonographs and washing machines), Harvardmen play canasta and bridge, and worry about war with Russia and atomic bombing. Only three out of ten go to church with any regularity, but six out of ten believe in God. One out of five has written a book, and one out of ten has run for some sort of public office-from justice of the peace to President (Eugene Daniell, who ran in 1932 on the Commoners ticket-a shortlived organization of Bostonians, dedicated to the promise of a living wage for everyone...
Yalemen were way behind Harvardmen at gulping goldfish in the late '30s, but last week they were in the van of the latest undergraduate seizure: the Dirty Shirt Club. The idea is simple. Each club member puts up $10, takes turns at wearing the same unwashed pink cotton shirt for a day at a time. The man wearing the shirt the day it falls apart wins...
Yale's Dirty Shirt Club last week had 16 members, a waiting list and one very dirty shirt (not yet worn out). So far, Harvardmen were holding back...
...little cluster of Harvardmen (22 this term) banded together in the Harvard Art Association, the drawing possibilities were all pretty dreary: mostly just cubes and cones, bowls of fruit and other still lifes. Why not draw the human figure from nude models, like art students anywhere? They made it a petition and last week the administration said yes. For the first time in Harvard's 314-year history (provided a faculty member is present to chaperone) undergraduates will draw from live models, draped or undraped...