Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some of the eager buyers were incited to purchase through prurience, they were doomed to disappointment. The report itself is as devoid of racy reading matter as an economic yearbook. What made the headlines was the report's two major recommendations: that 1) homosexual behavior in private between consenting adults be no longer classed as a crime, and 2) arresting officers or complainants be no longer required to establish the fact of "annoyance" to bring prostitutes to book for soliciting...
...Husband based his survey on college records, the class yearbook, and a special questionnaire on job history, income, civic affairs and other aspects of the graduates' lives. Median income of those who replied...
First prize will be $15. Second prize will be a much maligned Yearbook. In case of a tie, each will win $15, the Year-book--since we have only one copy--will be cut in half...
...Life scatter-fire-and-look-for-the-oddities approach manifested in the polls has been explained away as a play for the interest of the Newspapers. which are said to be looking for this sort of thing in yearbooks. Yet in 321, this attitude extends beyond the polls. In all of its essayings into undergraduate life there is a failure to ask why. Even in the mediocre best of the lot, an article on religion at Harvard, the Yearbook holds itself to a straight reporting job, never allowing the fact to flower into truth. As a result, its record...
...perhaps the Yearbook has given us an accurate record of undergraduate failure to react to these things. Its inadequacies reinforce the observations which have already been made about our generation--that we are humorless, dry, undirected, inconclusive like the Yearbook, quiet. Or perhaps the trouble is Harvard, a Harvard with maturity and an inconclusive orthodoxy. Whether the fault is in our generation, feeling baffled and helpless, or merely in an aged and bloodless Harvard, Seniors will presently discover...