Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large library of the works of distinguished Englishmen is betrayed by an equestrian symbol-a pair of tarnished spurs which hang in proud retirement above the fireplace. His nautical blood put him on Harvard's first one hundred and fifty pound crew which he captained in his senior year. But the crew's "claudication," he mournfully recalls, prevented it from getting in any of the pictures...
Died. Rear Admiral James Duncan MacNair (retired), 71, senior ranking Navy Chaplain, holder of the Navy Cross for heroism under fire (with U.S. Marines at Belleau Wood in World War I); after long illness; in Brookline...
...University. The next decade will see no repetition of the extravagant 1920's when privately constructed organization buildings sprang up like dandelions: present facilities will have to do unless the University acts for all groups. Unfortunately, present facilities are at best meagre. Six organizations, including the Freshman and Senior yearbooks, lack space and equipment with which to efficiently conduct their activities. At least eight other groups, among them the Band, Orchestra, and Glee Club, need desk and filing space as well as the assurance that a room will always be available for their meetings. Phillips Brooks House, which has been...
Twenty thousand Aggies served in World War II, and 14,000 of them got commissions (among them: 29 generals)! Six won Congressional Medals of Honor, four of them posthumous. The Aggies had always been like that: in 1917, the entire senior class volunteered in a body...
Junior is a genial, hair-triggered young man who prepped at a Cambridge (Mass.) public school and at Exeter, flashed through Harvard summa cum laude, landed a fellowship at Cambridge University, and came back to Harvard a Junior Fellow. His senior thesis on Orestes A. Brownson, a Transcendentalist who turned Catholic, was published when he was 21, sold only 2,500 copies. With the war he went to OWI in Washington, then to OSS in the ETO, ending up as a corporal in political intelligence...