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Fritz G. A. Eager then read the Class Poem, an original work of eloquence and insight. He in turn was followed by the Ivy Orator, Thomas J. Babe, Jr. Babe, to the delight of his audience, discussed at length the place of the "Wonk" at Harvard. Citing a wide range of authorities, including the Yale Program for the Advancement of Adult Propensities and Plato's Wonk, Babe urged kindness and understanding for the "wonk" and called on those present to regard him with tolerance if not affection. Do not pass a wonk, he pleaded movingly, without saying, "There, wonk...
Following a prayer by R. Jerrold Gibson, Acting Minister of Memorial Church, the Class Oration will be delivered by Albert Joseph Clements of Houston, Texas, and the Class Poem will be delivered by Fritz E.A. Eager of New Canaan, Conn. The traditional humorous talk, the Ivy Oration, will be given by Thomas J. Babe, Jr., of Rochester...
...Wednesday morning, the procession for Class Day exercises forms at 9:30 a.m. in front of the John Harvard Statue in the Old Yard. The program includes the traditional serious and humorous orations, the class poem, and the passing of the class colors to the freshmen...
...nonetheless keeps in fighting trim with weekly sessions in a steam-filled room, "the one place where I can relax." Among the seminude supporters sweating it out with Big Jim were Merchant Bernard F. Gimbel, 78, and onetime Heavyweight Champ Gene Tunney, 66, who read a poem-presumably in dank verse-titled Ode to a Bouncing Biltmore Bath Baby...
John Hay '38, a poet and naturalist, will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa poem. Hay, the president of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, is the author of A Private History, a volume of poems published...