Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about 67 of his classmates answered a call for candidates. Competitions in those days were grueling affairs, and Roosevelt had committed himself heavily to journalism for the remainder of the year. W.R. Bowie, managing editor of the paper when F.D.R. was president, wrote in the 1904 Harvard Yearbook this description of a competition: "The task was heavy, the drain on the candidate's thought and time exhausting. The candidate was everywhere; he was 'the arrow that flieth by day, and the pestilence that walketh in darkness...
...Tommy White moved on to St. John's Military Academy (Episcopal) in Delafield, Wis., made several athletic teams and the presidency of the graduating class, was editor-in-chief of the 1918 St. John's yearbook. The Trumpeter. Barely 17. he was one of the youngest cadets ever admitted to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. At the age of 18, graduating 148th out of 270 in one of World War I's speedup classes, he was one of the youngest cadets ever commissioned...
Student apathy may put the Radcliffe Yearbook out of existence this year, according to Margaret Lestina '58, Editor. The Yearbook must have a guarantee of 300 sales and about $1500 in advertising to break even, Miss Lestina said yesterday. In recent years, no Yearbook has sold more than 275 copies...
Senior photographs are scheduled to be taken starting Monday. If there is no marked response to the Yearbook's plea for workers and subscribers by that time, publication may not be possible...
...major religious groups gained 3,000,000, a 3% increase for the year, swelling total enrollment to a record 103,224,954. Of every 100 Americans, 62 now claim affiliation, compared with 20 out of 100 a century ago. Latest membership figures, as published last week in the 1958 Yearbook of American Churches...