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John H. Finely '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, and Athletic Director Thomas D. Bolles will be the featured speakers at a dinner of the Class of 1950 at the Harvard Club of Boston tonight. The affair represents the first reunion of that class, the largest in Harvard history, and will get under...
Andrews Field, Md. was the scene of a happy father & son reunion between General Mark Clark and his son William, 26, who had flown home from Korea for convalescence in Walter Reed hospital after being wounded for the third time. After a smile for the cameras, there was a round of congratulations: to the general for being nominated U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, to William for wearing the new gold leaves of a major, a battlefront promotion after his action on Heartbreak Ridge...
Yale's birthday party, said President A. Whitney Griswold, was nothing more or less than a big family reunion . . . "The graduates of the English universities who founded Harvard, and the graduates of Harvard who founded Yale, brought to us a living shoot from the tree of learning whose roots reach down through western culture to ancient Greece . . . The founders' respect for learning speaks for itself: the scholar rubs elbows with the moralist. Both share the natural piety, the simple moral earnestness that for all our shortcomings has pervaded our culture and extended the aims of American higher...
...sour note sounded at Yale's family reunion last week (see above). It came from the brassy trumpet of a 25-year-old alumnus, William F. Buckley Jr. As chairman of Yale's Daily News in 1949-50, Buckley had been a sort of rebel in reverse-a fire-eating youthful conservative. Last week, in a book called God and Man at Yale (Henry Regnery; $3.50), he accused Yale in particular, and other universities in general, of sabotaging God and capitalism alike...
Next year's House Committee will decide whether or not the Reunion Tradition will be continued...