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...reunion week approaches, Harvard officials are pleased to note that 95.5 per cent said they were glad they were alumni. The fundraising goal for the 25th reunion is $1.6 million, for which an average contribution of $2300 from every living alumnus is needed. Yale's class of 1954 currently holds the record for any single class at any college with $1,636,000 donated. (1636 is the year of Harvard's founding and some officials suggested that Yale might have fudged the total a little to gall its ancient rival.) The Harvard Class of '54 had more than $1.3 million...
...Class of '54, for better or worse, attended college during one of the more tranquil times in our country's history. In their 25th reunion questionnaire, many expressed their regret at attending college 15 years before the storm, just as some students today long for the activism and campus unrest their older brothers and sisters experienced while in college. In the early '50s the Korean War anb the battle against American Communists shared the headlines with phone booth-stuffing contests and hula-hoop exhibitions; at Radcliffe the students thought more of the latter than of the former. Though the military...
...early fifties and started construction of Holmes Hall and the Cronkhite Graduate Center, The Crimson devoted more coverage to the stealing of Lampoon's Ibis, to the annual Miss Radcliffe contest (Lois Love Eberling '54, a concentrator in Social Relations, was the winner in this year's 25th reunion class) and to the autumn, 1953 controversy over whether to extend Radcliffe parietal hours from 10 to 11 p.m. (They eventually were extended, but only for seniors in Group IV or above). The Crimson, and most Harvard men, ignored the many not-strictly-social extracurricular activieis of Radcliffe women...
Clutching "Great Comeback of '54" wastebaskets and wearing floppy white sunhats, 557 members of the Class of '54, their wives and children registered for their 25th Reunion yesterday...
What about Harvard sports in the 1980s? What will it be like when the Class of '79 returns for its Tenth Reunion in 1989 (assuming that there still will be enough energy left for the transportation of alums to Cambridge...