Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reading this year's yearbook, Three Thirty One, isn't reading about what was significant or meaningful at Harvard this year. It's like re-reading last year's yearbook. Or the one before that. Or the one before that. With the exception of your own picture (and if you aren't graduating, you probably don't even have that consolation) there's very little in this year's book to distinguish it from past editions...
Many profiles are fatuous. They open with anecdotes, ramble a while, then close with an anecdote or tag that is just dripping with Meaning. Collect all the last paragraphs of Yearbook articles and you'd have either the Key to the Cosmos or something Elbert Hubbard would have been happy to print...
...yearbook is going to be successful it's going to have to drop this format which is based on obvious names, locations, and concepts. It's going to have to listen a lot more carefully to what people are talking about and thinking about. Its reporters and writers must start asking new questions and must learn to write to be read, lest they be superficial and inflated at the same time...
...juniors not yet photographed should come to the Yearbook office at 52 Dunster St. Thursday or Friday before 4 p.m. Girls should wear dark sweaters...
...Harvard Yearbook Publications has elected its officers for 1967-68. They are: David W. Johnson '68 of Leverett House and Marblehead, president; Robert F. Sproull '67 of Quincy House and Ithaca, N.Y., managing editor; Randall D. Weiss '68 of Lowell House and Philadelphia, business manager; Kenric W. Hammond '69 of Leverett House and Pasadena, Calif, production chairman; James T. Kurnick '68 of Quincy House and Garden Grove, Calif., photography chairman; Kenneth M. Ludmerer '68 of Leverett House and Long Beach, Calif., editorial chairman; David C. Jimerson '68 of Eliot House and Sinking Spring, Penn., executive editor; and Richard A. Cohen...