Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taste with a minimum of talent. Frederick DeWolf Pingree '24 wrote the doggerel, and Robert Martin '23 drew the cartoons, some of which are amusing in conception, but suffer rather drastically in execution. At a time when Harvard was beginning to outgrow its reputation as a hotbed of social snobbery, Pingree and Martin reacted absurdly against the changing times with verses showing a jejeune anti-semitism, and a rather pitiable outcry against the expanding attitude of the Admissions Department. The following poem, called "The Club-Man-About-Ttown" or "Suaviter In Modo" is representative of both the style and interest...
...Despite the accuracy and perception of many of Marquand's comments on the nature of Harvard, his viewpoint has certain limitations. Marquand's Harvard is that of the pre-World War II days: Harvard as a veritable breeding ground of class-consciousness, and the very soul of New England social-financial distinctions...
...Late George Apley, whose narrator is the perfect embodiment of the kind of Harvard man that Marquand has been satirizing for the past twenty years, explores with amazingly sustained deadpan humor the narrow social sensibility that one usually associates with the "Old Grad" type. Clubs, the "Pudding," and afternoon tea at prominent Boston houses are the essential activities of George Apley at Harvard. With very minor variations, this type of society is the one that Marquand writes about when, as in Wickford Point and Sincerely, Willis Wayde, he turns specifically to Harvard. It would be silly to base a general...
Included in the books now located at Desk One are those necessary in all lower and upperlevel Humanities, Natural Science, and Social Science Courses. Ernst estimates that more than 40 percent of the volumes kept on closed reserve are used in those courses. At Desk Three yesterday, there was a total of some 6,000 books...
...only club contacted last night which indicated interest in inviting Mrs. Gaynor, was the Social-Democratic Forum. The club will consider, according to secretary Edward W. Averill '56, sponsoring a lecture by the former delegate to last summer's festival in Warsaw, as an educational, rather than a political project...