Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stepping out of a small college comes to Harvard, unknown and unheralded and, it would seem, ignored, the Unclassified Student. Not backed by fellow Freshmen, or supported by friends in the upper classes, he is indeed lost in the whirl of college activities. To find and understand his fellow scholars is almost impossible. The University for him becomes a great industrial plant, each man selfishly pursuing his own affairs, wrapped up in his own friends, enveloped in "Harvard indifference." Surely something can be done to make the path of the Unclassified Student easier...
Indifference as to the outcome of class elections will continue as long as the candidates are unknown to the voters, and as long as the class offices remain in the average student's eyes only honorary positions for athletic heroes...
...regret the applause after each poem. The accumulation of your appeal was thus broken, yet it is through such lack of comprehension that we understand the awakening of our generation to, realizations unknown to those before us, much as the structure of their religion has failed...
Although, everything over one-half of one per cent, has (ostensibly) passed into the limbo of the unknown, certain features have come to recompense the toiling undergraduate for this his greatest loss. Here and there a hip pocket bulges happily, now and again the Puritanic fragrance of the Yard is spiced with a more pleasing aroma. All in all, however, the era of John has passed. We enter upon the age of Fortuna. Things may not be moving forward, but they certainly are moving...
Before the war Mr. Sassoon was practically unknown as a poet, but in 1918, on the publication of "The Old Huntsmen," he suddenly became known as one of England's leading young poets. The war, changing his point of view and his style effected this sudden rise to fame...