Word: reunions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entire country, like a darkness, like an oppressive bad dream, in which one could neither speak nor act; and the talk and animation in Washington today are a relief like waking up from a bad dream . . . the place is like a Yale-Harvard-Princeton reunion.... It is equally true that, for a graduate of the school of New York liberalism, it is Old Home Week today in Washington." Schlesinger recreates this infusion of new life in the Capital in his book, but he is less interested in the aesthetic side of the renaissance than its practical results...
...office, a block from Havana's Presidential Palace, Ruby cuts an enduring, familiar figure, togged in grey sweater, carmine blouse and blue slacks. Unruffled by habitual administrative alterations, most of them punctuated by gunfire, outside her green door, she occasionally makes a revolution sound like a Long Beach reunion of ex-Iowans. From her accounts (and other Times stories last week) the reader got little impression of the violent executions decreed by the Castro forces...
House-centered Reunions would be "a fine thing for reuning classes," Dean Monro commented. "The Houses would be a good place to spend the Reunion, since the House means so much to the returning alumnus." He thought that there was "considerable attachment to the Houses," and that "a lot of people would want to go back...
Twenty-fifth Reunion classes will someday return to live entirely in the Houses, Gordon M. Fair, Master of Dunster House, predicted yesterday. He praised a proposal made to that effect last Wednesday by Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House...
John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, suggested that a special alumni program might be arranged in the Common Room to discuss changes that have taken place. "For some time we have had small meetings with graduates who arrive before reunion activities," Finley added...