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...Class of 1944 may have been chiseled out of the honor of being Harvard's three hundredth class...
Over a thousand members of the Class of 1944 will awake the yard from its summer lethargy on the morning of September twentieth as Harvard begins its three hundredth and fifth year. Starting with the perils of laundry venders and Lampoon salesmen, the new freshmen will embark on their career in Cambridge as a thoroughly typical class in respect to number and geographical distribution...
Dunster House is formulating an extensive program for the celebration next autumn of a double anniversary. The year 1940 is the tenth since the opening of the House and the three-hundredth since the induction of Henry Dunster as President of Harvard College...
...thought his six-foot frame was quite a respectable size, until Professor Mather told him that the brontosaurus grew to a length of 95 feet. He thought the earth which he inhabited was pretty roomy, until he was told that all of its fellow planets have only one seven-hundredth of the bulk of the solar system, and even the sun, which contains all of the rest of the volume, is just a second or third rate star...
...Stop using big words," said his grandfather testily. "As a matter of fact, we did give it a thought now and then. But the men who published that book didn't think sex had any place in a dignified analysis of Harvard's three hundredth class. It wasn't of permanent interest, they said, how many members of my class were 99.44 pure, if you follow me. They said it was poor taste and didn't mean anything to talk about such things. Are you listening, George...