Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Furthermore class spirit as such would be extremely difficult to construct after all members of the Senior class have been split up into definite and isolated groups. A Freshman is generally eager to make friends; he enlarges his circle of acquaintance beyond that of his past schoolmates to that of his class as a whole. The Senior on the other hand, especially if he has lived with the same group for three years is not as ready to meet the boy from across the hall. He has his friends, interests, and he has divisional examinations to keep his mind occupied...
...years out makes the recognition of wives and children a tradition, and secures something very like a hundred per cent attendance on the part of members of the class. Some of these men are back for the first time and have to catch up with a great deal of past history. Their classmates have changed and more even than they the College has changed. But in these almost frenzied affairs there should come the consciousness of a simpler more quiet welcome, and the CRIMSON wishes to extend to all returning graduates the sincere wish that they may feel at home...
...result of recent large gifts. This annual income is what the Library can count on regularly, for book buying. In addition to this, the experience of recent years justifies the expectation that special gifts for immediate use will provide from $15,000 to $20,000, the average of the past few years, which can be used to take advantage of special opportunities to enrich the Library. In other words, the College Library can count on buying about $80,000 worth of books each year...
There have been exceptional years in the past, the most recent being 1924, when a graduate gave a considerable number of rare works of English literature for which he is known to have paid considerably over $100,000, so that the year's total was double the normal amount...
...President Lowell a year ago in June, 1928, Harvard received from the family of William Augustus White, '63, a collection of the early editions of Shakespeare's plays, which were appraised at $435,000. In other words, the money value of the College Library has increased in the past twelve months more than a million dollars...