Word: reeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HERE, in lithograph and concise chronicle, is the story of John Reed, playboy, poet, and hero of present-day U. S. radicals. It is a thrilling and intensely interesting story...
...John Reed came to Harvard from Portland, Oregon, and graduated with the Class of 1910. He took a normal, fashionable part in college activities, made the Lampoon, was cut from the CRIMSON, was head cheerleader during the football season of 1909, wrote the Pudding show, and consumed champagne and caviar at some of the best Boston deb parties. He went to New York, fell under the wing of Lincoln Steffens, became interested in the plight of labor, organized a gigantic labor pageant, was jailed for radical activities. Went to Mexico as war correspondent, made friends with Pancho Villa...
Hume Dow '38, then outlined the activities of the John Reed Club, a study group which is dedicated to the discussion of Socialist Economic Theory, James L. Morrisson '38, then gave a resume of the work of the Pierian Sodality, one of the largest extra-curricular groups in the College. Herbert M. Irwin '37, manager of the Band, spoke of the "Hell of a lot of fun" to be derived from that organization saying that it took very little time, yet traveled much, accomplished great things. John H. Eric '37, secretary of the Glee Club, spoke of the high class...
...Milton Academy Hallowell Phillips 18 180 6.1 Milton Academy Luther, Charles H. 18 165 5.11 Blake Healey, Thomas V. 19 195 6.2 Worcester Academy Hollmeyer, Harry W. 17 175 6.2 Beacon Jacobs, Stephen W. 17 185 6. Woodmere Academy Myers, John W. Jr. 19 170 6.1 Noble & Greenough Reed, Philip L. Jr. 18 185 6.2 Andover Rubin, Edward 18 150 5.11 Los Angeles High Soule, Augustus W. Jr. 17 182 6.2 Brookline High Wood, Hamilton H. 18 187 6.3 Noble & Greenough GUARDS Abramson, Howard J. 17 176 5.10 Boston Latin Bailen, Richmond 18 155 5.11 Roxbury Latin Blaine, Graham...
...accused to escape; and President Mather, one of the two men who did most to bring the prosecutions to an end--all were Harvard men. Or, to bring our illustration up to date, we are reminded that among the members of the Class of 1910 were both "Jack Reed," the journalist who merited a grave in Moscow, and our conservative Congressman, Mr. Hamilton Fish. Look at some of the Harvard non-conformisas of the past--Theodore Parker, Henry D. Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wendell Phillips, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, James Russell Lowell--abolitionists, religious heretics, champions of women's rights...