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...last audience in America to which I would make a serious address would be a reunion of college graduates. In such reunions men honoring ancient shrines of learning with one accord breathe one prayer: 'Make me a sophomore just for tonight.' And few prayers are more unfailingly answered...
Today, however, the program at Harvard for Reunion Week, 1956, shows that many prominent men decidedly disagree with Thomas's pronouncement (as with many of his other ideas, no doubt). Three such persons, it may be presumed, are John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, John U. Monro '34, Director of the Financial Aid Office, and McGeorge Bundy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, all of whom actually will dare to address a Reunion audience seriously when they take part Wednesday morning in the symposium on "The College: Its Future Size and Shape...
...fact is that Reunions in Cambridge now are significantly different from what they were a decade or two ago. There are symposia (an innovation begun in 1949, expanded ever since); there are instructive tours of the University's facilities; there are more professors and fewer coaches on the speaking platforms; for the 25th Reunion Class there is even a "Back to College Day" several months in advance, when Class members can attend lectures, inspect the Houses, and talk with Faculty members in a less hectic atmosphere than prevails in June. In sum, there is now a process of actually...
This new trend in Reunion behavior has been developing for some time. Edward A. Weeks, Jr. '22 spotted it back in the thirties, and commented: "It is no longer necessary to break three hundred glasses and fifteen windowpanes in order to prove that you've been college graduates for six years. Amen! Amen!, sigh the hotel proprietors on the Cape...
Today, the typical alumnus still takes seriously the result of the Yale game, still exhibits staunch Class loyalty, and still has a wonderfully wild time at Reunions (the Class of '31 plans to spend $130,000 on its 25th anniversary affair). He is likely, however, to know less about Harvard's football record than about its policy in regard to "Communist" Faculty members, to work actively on the schools or scholarship committee of his local Club, to consider just what educational principles he is buying when he writes a check to his Class Fund, and to stray from the Hasty...