Word: older
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many arrived in September 1950 unsure whether they would spend four uninterrupted years in Cambridge. The United States had entered into the second war in these young men's lives. Naturally they were worried; older brothers had died in World War II. The headline in The Crimson's 1950 Registration Issue read "University Plans No Drastic Changes To Meet World Crisis; '54 Should Escape Draft Call." And they did. No one in the Class of '54 died on a Korean battlefield. In fact, George S. Abrams writes in the 25th Anniversary Report of his class, "The worst effect...
...football team, always under intense undergraduate scrutiny, improved steadily as '54 grew older. As freshmen, the team won only once, but with the arrival of the backfield of Dick Clasby and the senator from Iowa, the Crimson went six and two in their senior year. According to a Crimson editorial, the victory over Yale in The Game--the first Harvard win in the Yale Bowl since 1941--"cast a self-satisfied glow over the College...
...better or worse, attended college during one of the more tranquil times in our country's history. In their 25th reunion questionnaire, many expressed their regret at attending college 15 years before the storm, just as some students today long for the activism and campus unrest their older brothers and sisters experienced while in college. In the early '50s the Korean War anb the battle against American Communists shared the headlines with phone booth-stuffing contests and hula-hoop exhibitions; at Radcliffe the students thought more of the latter than of the former. Though the military draft made headlines...
That courage sets Baker a little apart from the long and distinguished line of American newspaper humorists who preceded him, a line that is older than the nation itself. The first regular humor column in the New World appeared in Boston's New-England Courant in 1722 under the byline "Mrs. Silence Dogood," a pseudonym for young Benjamin Franklin. In one typical effort, Dogood/Franklin needled Harvard for turning out budding scholars who were "as great blockheads as ever, only more proud and self-conceited." Well, it seemed funny at the tune...
...easily identifiable category. "You get onto a columnist, you know. There's foxy grandpa, there's the font of wisdom, there's Mr. Inside Information, and I was trying to mix it up, like a junk-ball pitcher in baseball keeping them off balance." He laughs. "You get older and lose your fastball and there's more junk. It was easy to be angry, but I felt you couldn't go the distance being angry. God's Angry Man is delightful for the first six months, and then you wish he'd shut up. It wasn't easy to shut...