Word: socialize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Considered as a group, the Class of '59 may be chiefly remembered by Harvard historians as marking a break-down of the conception of the Class as a meaningful social unit. The more cynical may think that the Class never was a meaningful social unit, but merely an Administrative device to elicit alumni loyalty and contributions. Before the advent of the Houses, however, in the days when Seniors lived together in the Yard, there is good reason to believe that the Class did play an important part in the life and memories of the Harvardman...
Added to the increased importance of the Houses, two other factors tend to decrease the importance of the Class. The first and probably most important of these is the increasing academic proficiency and competition of the College. This situation forces many to spend less time in social and extra-curricular activities and 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...
...Houses met a mixed reaction--far from the nearly unanimous approval they enjoy today. The CRIMSON wondered editorially whether the new social system might not infringe on student individuality, and the undergraduates themselves were not uniformly anxious to commit their College life to the House idea. As the months rolled on, however, one House after another was completed, and the Class of '34 became the first (in history) to spend all three of its upperclass years as members of a House system that quickly gained student respect...
...point Author Packard prints a chart of the social acceptability of various professions. Pennsylvania-born Vance Packard himself has risen in that scale. He began as a newspaperman (42nd place), but he is now considered a sociologist (27th). He lives in New Canaan, Conn., in a twelve-room house (white frame), and has a Weimaraner, just about the highest-status dog available...
Room at the Top. The novel by John Braine, one of England's Angry Young Men, has a plot about a social climber which is centuries old, but all the same it comes out one of the real British movie triumphs...