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From the Class of 1911, Franklin D. Roosevelt of the Class of 1904 gets many a brickbat. Seventy-five percent declare they will vote for Alf M. Landon this year. As a loyal alumnus, Author Tunis finds that fact painful. "Whence," he asks, "this strange, almost fanatical hatred of a...
For a basis of comparison, Author Tunis uncovered a post-graduate-report of Harvard's Class of 1811, found that a full quarter became lawyers, that most were politically alert, that many were distinguished public servants. Class of 1911 produced no mayor, governor, congressman, or state legislator. Largest occupational...
Author Tunis likewise surveyed the reports of the Class of 1911 at Yale and Princeton. Mathematically average Yale-man of 1911, he found, "is a lawyer in New York, with an office downtown, and a house above the Grand Central on a side street east of Fifth Avenue. He is...
Concludes Author Tunis bitterly: "We are a bunch of contented college cows. . . . That lamp of learning, tended by the ancient Greeks, blown white and high in the mediaeval universities and handed down to us in a direct line through Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge, has at last produced a group of...
Quick were many Harvardmen to insist that whatever Author Tunis' survey might show, it was true only of the Class of 1911, which many ungraciously suggested was a dud. Harvard's Class of 1910, for instance, fathered a celebrated motley including Columnists Walter Lippmann and Heywood Broun, Poet...