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...must assume that he will return to Harvard," Allan added. Bethel, who is managing editor this year of Cambridge 38, which is published by the Yearbook, is ill with pneumonia and unavailable for comment...
...Yearbooks, I suppose, are designed to be appreciated more twenty years after publication than when they are published. A picture inaccurately and incompetently drawn becomes more attractive as the memory of the reality on which it is based fades. A yearbook bears much the same relationship to a year as a newsmagazine like Time bears to a week's worth of world news. The subject matter it tries to cover is simply too big for its resources, and it must resort to generalization to conceal its lack of depth and background. This is quite all right if the yearbook...
With these glib generalizations and gratuitous slaps at Henry Luce out of the way, I can proceed to 325 itself. It is perhaps less pretentious than its immediate predecessors in its ex cathedra judgments and one-sentence reviews, but it still suffers from a normal yearbook failing: it attempts to transcend its primary function of reporting and to pass on to the higher level of analysis and art. In the process, 325 manages to do an incompetent job on both levels. The yearbook's version of the year just passed is not convincing now, and, unless my memory goes very...
Given what may be a prejudice against yearbooks in general, there are still some things that one can like in a given specimen. The writing could be modest and straightforward, telling its story economically and in reasonable depth. It isn't. The photography could be good, complementing the text effectively. It isn't. The factual material could be technically impeccable. It isn't. Taken on its own terms, as importunate Yearbook types have been asking me to do, 325 is not very good...
...technical level, there are many small errors, of which I will mention two of the more egregious. The Dunster and Leverett shields have been transposed, and there is no such professor as Roscoe V. Pound, in either physics or law. One might assume that when the yearbook chooses a Faculty member (Robert V. Pound) for a profile, it would get his name straight; imaginative writing is too much...