Word: picnicers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...psychological tests to examine their fitness and listened to lectures on duties note taking, use of the library, college customs and every conceivable college topic. But the week was not all work and no play. There were smoker receptions, visits at the homes of various professors, even a picnic and track meet. The grand finale was a mass meeting of the class for or organization and the election of officers...
Gilda Gray, Follies contortionist: " At my Rockville Centre, L. I., home I entertained 100 children from a nearby bible school. I gave them a picnic lunch; I gave them games and folk dances on the green...
...Commencement Week will be disrupted by visitors, and there will be no chance then for making or renewing acquaintances. The gathering tonight is a preliminary which will put the Class on the best terms with itself for the remaining weeks. Those few who regretted the loss of the Senior Picnic will find here a satisfactory substitute; and the rest will welcome the occasion as a novelty in class affairs. The Class Committee, in its capacity of host, deserves the gratitude of all its guests...
Although there will be no Senior picnic this year, the custom in the past of soliciting contributions from the Freshman class will be continued this year by the Class of 1923. Instead of devoting the money collected to a picnic, the Seniors will use the funds for some other form of class gathering, for which plans are now being made...
...sanity of either Mr. Volstead or the present Senior officers, but he does view with sorrow the passing of one more of the few occasions when Harvard undergraduates get together as a class unit. The almost total disappearance of the class dinner, the class smoker, and now the Senior picnic does lend color to mischievous statements that Harvard is not democratic and that Harvard men live in cliques. WILLIAM E. HARRIS ('20) 2G. March...