Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yearbook 320 is probably a little better than 319; but it is still very bad. Its improvement, such as it is, lies in its excellent photography, improved layout, and new ideas. But its organization, treatment of subject matter, and prose style seem only the products of years of remarkably sustained mediocrity...
...Christian Fellowship, an extremely unrepresentative, largely fundamentalist group, is used to represent Protestant students on campus, and is compared with Hillel and the Catholic Club. For the second time, the DeMolay Club is treated in a very flip and condescending manner. It is hard to understand why the yearbook editors single it out from all the organizations in the college and accuse it of making "few positive contributions to the Harvard scene...
...section on publications, the yearbook editors advise themselves, "Try something new in the Yearbook this year. Put some personality into the houses." It is both disappointing and ironic, then, that 320 leaves personality, which is already in the houses, out of their articles about them. The house articles are all too short, having suffered most from the Yearbook's general reduction in size. Approximately one-fourth their regular length, the house descriptions cannot adequately discuss personality, or even stereotypes. Adams, the freshman's "first choice than any other house" (sic) is described tritely and dully; Dunster's "party house" stereotype...
...unfortunate that the Yearbook is not able to attract better and more careful writers. Still, 320 is probably a good buy, for it is said that age dims perception. Members of the Class of '56 someday may be able to look back on the excellent pictures and youthful remembrances and feel more nostalgic than critical...
John D. Loeser '57, of Eliot House and South Orange, N.J., was elected President of the Harvard Yearbook yesterday...