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Entitled "The Truth About '40," and Written by Donald M. D. Thurber '40, a lengthy article near the front of the album is based upon 852 questionnaires sent out to the present members of the Senior Class...
...blanks were returned to Thurber and his committee, to whom the Herculean task of tabulating the ballots was assigned. Comments on the survey ranged from "On the whole a very admirable questionnaire" to "A stupid questionnaire. Typical of Harvard...
Although Donald MacD. D. Thurber's feature article. "The Truth About '40 will omit any discussion of sex, it will tell everything else about the class, and its 16 pages will be liberally spiced with literary and photographic humor, Donnell declared...
...article, written by Donald McD. D. Thurber '40, is based on an exhaustive questionnaire distributed to all Seniors and answered by 619 members of the Class of 1940. Sandwiched in among questions about the political views and family background of Seniors were two questions which dealt with sex, but the answers to these will not appear in the Album...
...entertaining after a fashion--had been shown. Through the doors poured dual streams of middle-aged Cambridge matrons, Mutt-and--Jeff pairs of Radcliffe girls, a sprinkling of Brattle Street subdebs, some dapper, be-mustached French instructors, and a handful of Harvard men. The latter seemed like some of Thurber's male animals in a war between the sexes. In the lobby the matrons were efficiently shunted past a line of tables where the essentials for knitting woollies for les types were hawked by enthusiastic sales-ladies. Also on sale were what appeared to be blue, white, and red-striped...