Word: reunioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is because this 25th reunion class has not waited until commencement week to return to the college with their wives and families. Instead, they have instituted a series of "Return Tickets to Harvard" which has brought members of the class and their families to Cambridge during mid-term, mid-week "working days...
...past, the 25th reunion, lasting the better part of a week, was confined entirely to Commencement, when the College closed and the program was so crowded with social events that there was little time to catch up recent Harvard developments...
...Class of 1927 pioneered in making a 25th reunion something more than a social affair. With the cooperation of the faculty, it set up a series of symposia designed to bring the Old Boys' nostalgia up to data. But these pre-reunion events were held the weekend before commencement when the College was to all intents and purposes shut down...
Throughout this period he continued his studies of Southern history. His efforts culminated in 1938 with the publication of "Road to Reunion" which received a Pulitzer Prize and an unrestrained lambasting from a College Marxist group., "Road to Reunion" looks benignly on Southern efforts during the post-bellum Reconstruction period, dimly on Northern contributions, and skeptically at the ultimate value of the Civil War. The Marxist group, however, judged him guilty of "maligning the struggle and achievements of the negroes" and went on to find him following "in the footsteps of the traditional approach to the period by asserting...
...Reunion. In Korea, when Pfc. Richard Barcelo Jr. of Tucson, Ariz, was wounded by shrapnel on Triangle Hill, he was recognized by another soldier from Tucson, who carried him to a field hospital where he was treated by a doctor from Tucson...