Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his senior year, young Gruening got a temporary job on William Randolph Hearst's Boston American, stayed for a year. To please his father, he took his M.D. degree, but he returned, immediately, to journalism. To the perplexity of his fellow reporters, all of whom thought it would be wonderful to be a rich doctor, Gruening preferred writing editorials for the Boston Herald at $27 a week...
...solemn ritual of the 296th Commencement began with a March of the Senior Class through the Yard to Memorial Church, where Dean Sperry conducted opening prayers. Following the service, they were joined by all other degree candidates under the direction of their several marshals. Chief Marshal R. Keith kane '22 led the march behind the University band paying tribute to the John Harvard statue before proceeding to the exercises before Memorial Church...
Underneath blue, windswept skies yesterday in the Eliot-Kirkland-Winthrop Triangle, Class Orator Philip M. Stern '47 told a capped-and-gowned Senior Class that although the General Education Program has moved out of the clothbound stages, Harvard must still "extend the growing and learning processes beyond the classroom and the library into other phases of college living...
...combat social apathy here (only 25 percent of the current graduating class took part in extra-curricular activities), the New Orleans Senior called for the establishment of "a central building to house and encourage these activities...
...First Marshal, Thomas L. P. O'Donnell '47 presented the Senior Class colors to Richard W. Kimball '50 and Paul J. Douglas '50, who received the banner in behalf of the Freshman Class. O'Donnell later paid an extemporaneous tribute to retiring Dean Hanford. The University Band provided the musical background, and the ceremonies ended with the singing of the Class Ode, which was composed by Harold C. Fleming '44, of Atlanta, Georgia...