Word: picnicers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Senior Picnic, likewise, is about to be discarded. 1923 will probably deny any influence from the sister college; but the cases are not very different. At this annual festivity, as now practiced, perhaps half the class participate. one-eighth enjoys itself, while the rest comes home with memories less pleasant than painful...
...officers of the Class of 1923, in urging that the historic picnic be abandoned, are taking a step to which most of their classmates will quickly assent. The practice of the picnic in recent years has shown lessening of interest by the class as a whole, and an increased emphasis on its objectionable features. The custom is one which would die a natural death if no unfortunate occurrence interrupted it to bring a sudden end. The convenient riddance which the present Seniors propose will be a relief to succeeding classes and no great loss...
Meanwhile, there is a question whether the desirable features of the picnic permitting as it did an informal class "get-together", cannot be provided by some other means. Any suggestions that the Committee receives will be cagerly considered, but they will be useless unless they eliminate the absurdities and exaggeration that made the old Senior Picnic a nuisance and even a danger...
...meeting of the Senior class officers and the Senior picnic Committee held last evening it was the unanimous opinion to give up the Senior Picnic, at least in its traditional form. No final action was taken, however, and it was announced that suggestions from members of the class in regard to a substitute for the picnic would be given every possible consideration...
...meeting of the Senior Class Committee yesterday afternoon, William Claypool Bennett of Somerville was appointed class Chorister to fill the position left vacant by the resignation of Charles Dwinell Whidden of Brookline. The picnic committee is composed of the following members of the class of 1923. Duncan Dunscombe of New York City; John Edward Kennedy of Jamaica Plain; Henry Hazen Reed of New York City; and James Robbins Reynolds of Readville...