Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHOULD BE no secret that the CRIMSON and the Yearbook have been engaged in something very close to civil war for the last month. The problem is the CRIMSON Photo Annual, a one-dollar paper-back released a couple of weeks ago, which the Yearbook people seem to see as an invasion of their turf. I'm a partisan in this fracas. If an inexpensive collection of pictures by CRIMSON photographers can substitute for the Yearbook's $11.95 package of nostalgia, then I am happy to see capitalism run its course. If the Yearbook really is an anachronism, cartels...
...expect to like Three Thirty Three. And as I difficulty read page after page, hoping to find reasons not to write an easily resented, condescending pan, I liked it less and less. Even the unbiased in the Lowell House Dining Hall whom I coyly asked, "Have you seen the Yearbook? How do you like it?" agreed with my own bigoted opinion: the book is not only bad, but the weakest product the men on Dunster Street have turned out in years...
This year the editors have included a good deal less of the much-vilified Yearbook writing than usual. What copy there is, though, primarily concerns some of the most tedious identity crises ever recorded. Apparently the book is out to capture what the Harvard experience feels like rather than what happened here last year, but the verbal talent to bring off such an enterprise is nowhere to be found in Three Thirty Three. The editors have consistently let slip past their red pencils verbosity ("the University has long been cognizant of the fact that the issues involved transcend the sphere...
...YEARBOOK'S decision to let pictures tell the story would make more sense if the photos had been selected with a bit more care. The good ones (like the WHRB series or the girl combing her hair on page 117) are all the time undercut by self-conscious posed snapshots and full-page pictures of subjects like a Radcliffe bulletin board or a Harvard toilet. Graphically, the book seems reasonably inventive and handsome, though the moody two-page shot of an athlete running up the Soldier's Field steps with last year's sports scores illegibly super-imposed in matching...
Part of the Yearbook's problem with student radicalism may be attributed to the traditional dilemma of sending the book to the printers when the year is only two-thirds done. Spring 1969 was a particularly unfortunate Spring to miss, and Three Thirty Three has rallied with a sixteen-page supplement on the occupation, bust, and strike. But the insensitivity is still evident. The Yearbook photographers are sensationally good on the dismay of the early-morning spectators at University Hall and the excitement of the crowd and participants at the first mass meeting. But they tell almost nothing about what...