Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether he did or not, the Boston press will probably continue to glorify Grover today, and this recognition will continue to be unique. The University apparently doesn't recognize him at all, for there is no record of him in any Yearbook nor in the files of the Alumni Association.CHARLES F. GROVER...
...Church membership in the U.S. climbed to a record 97,482,611 in 1954, a gain of 2,639,766 over 1953, according to the Yearbook of American Churches. Today 60.3% of all Americans are members of religious bodies...
...garden party behind the Superintendent's Quarters, the President accepted the class of 1955 edition of Howitzer, the academy's yearbook. Forty years before to the week, almost to the day, graduating Cadet Eisenhower had read of himself in Howitzer: "This is Señor Dwight David Eisenhower, gentleman . . . who claims to have the best authority for the statement that he is the handsomest man in the Corps . . . At any rate, you'll have to give it to him that he is well developed abdominally. In common with most fat men, he is an enthusiastic and sonorous...
There are many ways in which the yearbook could better have described the Harvard scene. More attention could have been paid to the dividers between the book's sections. While a few are fairly good photographically, none are particularly meaningful in terms of the life of Harvard College, as distinct from Any College. Instead of wasting full pages on organizations which meet once or twice a year and are interesting only to their own members, the same space could have been used for, say, a well-illustrated feature article on the problem of keeping Harvard what...
...there is far too much editorialization, particularly in the articles about undergraduate organizations. And words such as ensconced, collegian, frosh, and soph, should never, ever, see print. A few articles, however, showed a real attempt to get away from the rigid confines imposed by the nature of a yearbook. Those on the chess and bridge clubs and (but for one inexcusable line) the Band are quite good. One interesting innovation in this year's book is the inclusion of outstanding pieces from other publications. It might well become a regular feature...