Word: reunioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (TIME. Jan. 18). Missing, too, was the beribboned straw which, for an epoch, crowned the commencement head of John Pierpont Morgan '89. Gone was the traditional confetti battle between the seniors and their relatives and friends in Soldiers' Field. Gone was the reunion parade with its florid costumes, and the baseball game with Yale. No class tents were pitched in Harvard Yard, no lunches spread on the lawns. For music there was no traditional Harvard band, but Navy Yard and Coast Artillery brasses...
...royalist and a classicist, and the chaplet of lyrics (Ash Wednesday) which celebrated his conversion remains the most richly beautiful of his poems. In the '30s, taking hints in diction from his brilliant junior W.H. Auden, he wrote the poetic dramas Murder in the Cathedral and Family Reunion. Now, at an age (54) when the talent of many good poets is dead and buried, he publishes the harvest of his last seven years, these four "quartets." Of all his poems they are the most stripped, the least obviously allusive,* the least ingratiating in image and in diction, the most...
...drink." The foregoing bit of tipsy doodle is an awfully good facsimile of typical convesation between two Old Blue Grads, when a quarter of a century has passed and the first graduating class of the Yale University School of Alcohol Studies convenes, with glasses raised on sly, for a reunion...
Frost is noted for his traditionalism in poetry and his isolationism in politics. He, like Morison, holds M.A. and Litt. D. degrees. Dean Buck was one of the College's past winners when he was honored for his book "Road to Reunion...
...total of $1,000 is needed for running expenses to meet annual appeals from the Alumni Association, and upon which to base post-war reunion plans, it was announced. All 1944 men are automatically made members of the Alumni Association when the class answers the annual appeal...