Word: reunions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Class spends approximately $70 for each person in attendance, no minimum contribution is expected from a member who comes to the Reunion...
...Class of 1930, the minimum goal was $335,000, of which $250,000 will be given to the University as unrestricted funds, and $85,000 will be used to pay for reunion-week expenses. Whatever excess of this sum is raised will be given to the College for scholarship endowments...
...Reunion costs $100,000 when the expenses of using the University's facilities are included...
...CRIMSON feels about the theory of twenty-fifth reunions the way it does about Virtue and Motherhood--it isn't safe to attack any of them publicly. Not that there is any particular urge to attack, but the question just never arises. We assume that a twenty-fifth reunion is a Good Thing because anything of such monolithic proportions simply must have merit. And yet, there is certainly an air of organized fun about the reunion proceedings, and that is one of the CRIMSON'S pet bugbears. The proprietors of this column early appointed themselves guardians of social individuality...
...more positive side, the Editors stand in absolute awe and amazement at the Reunioners' ability to muster the high seriousness which we have always considered a peculiarly undergraduate property. At most other schools "reunion" means fatuous old fellows cavorting in beanies, and that is a very comforting thought for any young man who would cleave to the notion of irresponsible middle age. Instead of constant revels, however, we are faced with the sight of Harvard Reunioners attending symposia and discussing the problems of the University and the world with a virtuosity and vocabulary that we, again, thought the special property...