Word: classmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buckley Scholarships were established in 1965 through a bequest of Daniel A. Buckley providing for assistance to graduates of the city's public schools who are enrolled in any department of the University. Of this year's recipients twelve are upper-classmen in the college while the remainder are doing graduate school work...
Only upper classmen and graduate students will be eligible for the scholarships, according to present plans. A special committee appointed by President Conant will select the recipients on the basis of merit...
...however, it is conceived thusly, several modifications are necessary. The concentration fields for freshmen must be made much broader and more inclusive than are those which now exist for upper-classmen. Instead of division into narrowly specialized fields such as physics, all the experimental sciences could possibly be placed under a single heading; or history, government, and economics might feasibly be grouped together. By the aid of numerous excursions into these broader realms, the freshman would be able to choose more intelligently his place of permanent abode...
...semi-pros, baseball is not a full-time job. The Bona Allens, like 50% of their bottom-crust classmen, are for the most part factory workers (at about $125 a month) for the company (Bona Allen leather company) that owns the team. The other half of the semi-pro class play on teams owned by small-town merchant groups or individuals with $5,000 and a yen to own a ball club. They include many a onetime major-leaguer on his way out, many a schoolboy on his way up. But the backbone of the semi-pros are barbers, butchers...
Because Harvard is dependent and sometimes cool, many of you may be lonely for a while, But the process of orientation is primarily your own problem; to solve it, you must put yourself forward, give equally for what you take. Go to the Union and meet your fellow-classmen; walk about the Yard and learn the names of the various buildings; participate in the functions of Phillips Brooks House...