Word: marshaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the procession ends at about 10 a.m., J. Hampden Robb '21, University Marshal, will call, "Mr. Sheriff, pray give us order." The Sheriff does so, the invocation is given, distinguished seniors speak--in English and Latin--and Pusey then admits the Class of 1961 to "the fellowship of educated...
...tell who's who in the academic procession: The University Marshal, the President and Fellows, the Overseers, the Governor and his military staff, the Deans of the various departments, honorary candidates, professors, other Faculty and administrators, former Fellows and Overseers, former professors, Phi Beta Kappa orator and poet, trustees of the Hopkins Fund, Preachers to the University, local ministers, United Ministry members, college presidents, State Commissioner of Education, U.S. Congressmen, Armed Forces officers, State Supreme Court judges, Court of Appeals judges, Lieutenant-Governor, President of Associated Harvard Clubs, former honorary recipients, representatives of the Boston and Cambridge Mayors, Cambridge City...
...considers that the six term-time paper assignments in Social Sciences 2 are "the most important pedagogical device in my course." His section men, Michael Tanzer and Norman Pollack agree, stressing the improvement over the course of the term of their students' ability to present a coherent argument, to marshal facts to support it, to organize effectively, and to express themselves clearly. Reuben Brower assigns four or five papers in his English 162, as does Robert P. Wolff in Social Sciences 140. Richard Poirier, in his courses on American and English literature, is another who gives frequent paper assignments, believing...
...athlete at Harvard may be part of a distinct group of students, but he should not be accepted or considered as part of an inferior group of students. All kinds of awards, scholarships, and statistics could serve as witnesses in this argument. The first four class Marshals this year, for example,--Charlie Ravenel, Newell Flather, Tom Blodgett, and Bruce MacIntyre are all outstanding personalities who participated in athletics. If the reader regards the Class Marshal elections as mere popularity contests, he should take note of a statistical study made in 1954 on the percentage of distribution among various rank list...
Incidents involing Ernst Hanfstaengl, Hitler's foreign press secretary, brought students closer to the oppressive realities of the Thirties. Hanfstaengl was first chosen a class marshal for his 25th reunion, but he himself declined to serve after protest came from many quarters. Near the end of the year he again embarrassed Harvard by offering a student's scholarship to be used at a German university. The Hitler lieutenant made a similar offer two years later, only to be repulsed again. By this time Harvard opinion was solidly behind President Conant...