Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yearbooks are all alike in their tedium, and no one likes them, unless it is Mother. Each year the editors of these publications rack their brains for something "new." Inevitably, much the same thing issues forth. This year the novelty, according to the editors, is what is called "an editorial approach midway between the reportorial and the historical." "Yearbook writers," they say, "found themselves going beyond the dry facts to set down on paper the atmosphere of Harvard ... the Yearbook has presumed for itself a journalistic role rarely associated with college annual, that of interpreter as well as recorder...
...impress of the House on the undergraduate mind is the fact that the best-written articles by far are those on Houses, notably those on Adams, Dunster, and Eliot. Perhaps this is sheer accident; perhaps it is because the House is the most vital aspect of Harvard and the Yearbook people could not help but express this...
...according to Joseph Hurd '60, head of the Union Committee, two of the bigest pitfalls are actually College organizations, the Yearbook and the Student Council. He explained that the Council, through its eager solicitation of unwary freshmen during the first days of the year, is able to raise half of its total funds for the year from that class alone...
Hurd also said that "high-pressure" techniques on the part of the Yearbook resulted in many freshmen paying a one dollar down-payment for the Yearbook, under the impression that it was part of the price of the Freshman Register...
...first, according to Hurd, the Yearbook threatened to send books home to parents C.O.D. to assure payment, but later, after speaking with representatives from the Union Committee, it made arrangements for refunds for those who did not want a Yearbook...