Word: classes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard aquatic history--the 1938 League Champions who in many ways rated the title of "the best dual meet team in the country." This year Hal's problem is different, for of last season's tankmen only Captain Rusty Greenhood, Harley Stowell, and Phil Walker have departed with the Class of '39. What he has left is a nucleus of experienced Seniors and Juniors, and a horde of Sophomores who make up in spirit for what they may lack in ability...
...Curwen, an All-American 100 man two years ago, is now working out and will be trying to bring his four-lap efforts down to the 53's again. A great deal of laboratory work is the biggest obstacle to Jim's breaking into the 52-second class again, so until the season is well under way, he must be regarded as an enigma...
Novel and refreshing, judging by standards now in vogue, are the theories of teaching outlined by the poet Robert Frost in a recent interview with the press. Mr. Frost, who is conducting a weekly class at Harvard this year, holds no brief for stereotyped spoon-fed education. He states frankly that for him education is a take-it- or-leave-it affair in which he will "just keep silent, or even lie down on the desk until it is realized that what I want is self-starters, not followers of a set routine...
...date the committee has been largely concerned with selecting its engraver, printer, and photographer, all of whom have been determined. Pictures of the class have been taken by the Sargeant Studio in all the Houses and in Dudley; biography blanks for all Seniors will be sent out shortly after Christmas vacation...
...seem to say that the plutocracy aided when necessary by an allied Proletariat machine rules completely in what Stuart Thomson (W.W. in East: N.).: U.S.A.: Authors: Canada: Interna'l London) calls "censorship by exclusion: autocracy by preemption" in publicity and opportunity in his effort to restore his beloved Middle class in expression and property (homes sec Princeton Survey) confiscated by quadrupled taxation. Some of Thomson's articles on his program N.Y. Her-Trib Dec. 21 '36, Feb. 20 '30 N.Y. WLD Telg'm July 10 '39 editl pp Amer Federalist Mch 1027--Cleveland Leader called his Nature poems of boyhood...