Word: reunioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most talked about of classic gifts is an endowment fund established to clean pigeon droppings off a statue. At their twentieth reunion, the class of 1883 presented the college with a bronze bust of James Russell Lowell, class of 1838, to be placed in a niche on Massachusetts Hall, with a stone seat in front...
...Eisenhowers ducked out of Manhattan early Friday to attend the annual reunion of the West Point Class of 1915, at Washington's Army & Navy Club. Ike is honorary president of the class, the only one in West Point annals to produce two five-star generals: Eisenhower and Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...call was on Navab Safavi, hard-working boss of the terrorist Fadayan Islam (Crusaders of Islam), which plotted Razmara's killing. Safavi was himself in jail on suspicion of murdering other moderates, but in present-day Iran that is a mark of distinction. The two wept at the reunion, and Tahmassebi said: "Thanks to God we succeeded in our task." Over fruits and sweets served in his cozy cell, Safavi boasted: "I am such a powerful man that if I decide at any time, the gates of this prison will be opened to me . . . I pray...
...ponder Student Problems. The term charity needed stretching, granted, but some line will have to be drawn very soon. Even now, in our gloomier moments, we can see dim visions of classmates damning us for want of charity when we fail to donate a record sum for the 25th Reunion fund drive...
...less renowned continued to use the Union. After thirty years as a club, it became the Freshman Commons, despite the astonished cries of alumni. During the war, the Navy took over, and later the Summer School. Finally, it served as the headquarters of the 25th Reunion Class during Commencement. And those who see in each new use a break with hallowed tradition, might lay down their critical pens and remember the words of founder Higgenson at the Union's opening ceremonies...