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...Yearbook article on the new HPC-HUC organization said optimistically, "How long they will last is anybody's guess." Well, they have lasted--not so small a thing in a college which saw the Student Council and the HCUA die off within the space of three years. Success number...
...Houses are the next major sphere of musical activity. Leverett comes closest to the inner sphere of the big auspicious organizations. Its chief claim to fame is its Opera Society which as Yearbook 331 puts it, "has become the most active producer of large-scale musical events among the Houses." Its major effort this year was a highly successful production of The Marriage of Figaro, mounted with the aid of professional singers and instrumentalists and a $4500 budget...
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...