Word: size
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Autobiography. In Boston, the Globe ran a classified ad: "For sale-wedding gown, never used, size 14; baby carriage, reasonable...
...more time studying, especially during the freshman year when class spirit might develop. The less time-consuming House activities benefit at the expense of the more taxing college-wide activities. The second factor decreasing the importance of the Class as a unit is the ever-increasing diversity and size of the Harvard undergraduate body. When Harvard College was built on a New England, private-school basis, the student body was more homogenous than it is today. '59 was more geographically diversified than any class preceding it. '59 contained a decreased number of New Englanders, but an increased number from west...
This diversity and size was distinctly lighted in the Class Marshal elections of the Class of '59. For the last few years it has not been unusual for the First Marshal to be elected with only a fifth of the votes in his Class. However, in the Class of 1959, the First Marshal was thought "unrepresentative" by several hundred of his classmates. Ironically enough, the Class of 1959 was brought to unified Class action because of its extreme diversity...
...Classes. It became immortalized by being the last class to hold a Freshman Smoker. Although special precautions were made, '59's Smoker proved too hectic for University Hall. As Dean Von Stade tersely reported to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: "As the class increased in size after the war, the Smoker was moved to Sanders and became something far too close to a Bacchanalia for anyone's comfort. Attempts were made, over the past few years, to initiate various measures to make the Smoker a pleasant outlet for mid-winter tensions without running the risk...
...annually for International General Electric, to be resold under the I.G.E. name in Europe, Asia and Africa. I.G.E. was the second major U.S. electronics company to decide to make a deal this year with the Japanese. In April Motorola put on sale in the U.S. a $29.95 shirt-pocket-size transistor radio with most of its parts made in Japan. Among the Japanese parts: a tuning device so small that no U.S. electronics concern has yet been able to mass-produce it. Last week Motorola said the tiny portable was selling so fast "it practically walks off the dealer...