Word: yearbooks
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...years, the artsy pictures of sleeping people, lobster traps, and brick walls will not draw me down memory lane. They will mean nothing to me as I sit with my grand-daughter on my knee and remember my college years. They don't serve the purpose of a yearbook--to provide a record of the college experience...
...omitted Spring sports? Well there is a picture of the shanties and Ivory Tower in the book. The picture couldn't have been taken before April 16 because the Open University wasn't constructed yet. So spring team photos could have made the yearbook's pages...
...worried that the spring sports sections wouldn't have been complete because the seasons weren't over, maybe you're right. The problem could have been solved by leaving them out altogether and mailing a "Spring Sports Supplement" sometime in the summer. The supplement could be affixed to the yearbook, and each class would then have their own senior year records in their yearbooks, instead of last year...
...problem, though, is that almost all of the candids are of underclassmen--very few are of the graduating class. Somehow I doubt that the few sophomore and junior faces dwelling on the pages of the book successfully represent the numerous memories of the class who bought the yearbook--the class...
...SURE THE yearbook editors and staff put tremendous effort into the book. And it's a good book--it records much of what Harvard is about. But it's not a good yearbook for the Class of 1986. Too much of what that class is about has been left...