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Today peace strikes and student unions have supplanted the more practical and more effective rebellions against rancid butter and "fish with the gust in." Harvardmen no longer pound on in with the eternal leg of mutton, for beef now varies the diet. Our hardy forebears of the 17th century would blush with shame at our foppish assortment of tableware. Members of the Class of 1645 each had only one wooden spoon and one fork, the latter beeing used to nail one's single slice of bread to the table safely out of the reach of everyone else...
Well calculated to turn Ann Marsters, whose efforts were demonstrated in her "Primer for Harvard students", green with envy and other ailments, is the widely heralded approach of the "Social Register of Harvardmen...
Just who the compilers are seems to be the chief mystery of the affair. The Social Register Incorporated, from their New York office categorically denied all knowledge of the existence or imminent birth of the "Harvardmen's Register", and emphatically withheld their authorization. It was being rumored at an advanced hour last night that the whole thing was devised by Cambridge printing companies who get tired waiting for books to be written or magazines to be published, and decided something should be done about...
...presidents were invited to be the learned guests of honor. All but President Heman Humphrey of Amherst declined the opportunity to listen to President Quincy's two-hour historical oration. Josiah Quincy was bitterly disappointed that his Bicentennial was less an academic festival than a convivial reunion of Harvardmen. In one form or another this year, the Harvard Tercentenary has been going on since June, with conventions of scholars entertained and entertaining at scores of minor celebrations staged by various schools and departments. That the Tercentenary was a prime academic festival not even Josiah Quincy could deny...
...Said James Bryant Conant: "It was lucky for Harvard that this baby recovered, for his name was Charles William Eliot." At this mention of the man under whose celebrated 40-year (1869-1909) administration Harvard blossomed into a great University and the whole tradition of higher education was changed, Harvardmen stamped, cheered, roared their tribute to a beloved pedagog...