Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Oliver P. Bolton '39, President of Newspaper Publishing Companies, Willoughby, Ohio, wrote, "It is of interest to me because I have always felt that, though football managing led me to spend too little time on class work, it nonetheless was perhaps the most rewarding experience I had in college. I have always felt that it gave me what I most needed at the point in my development, and that without it I would have been pretty lost in the great maelstrom that is Harvard." His son Charles is presently a freshman football manager...
Following the graduation of the theatrically outstanding class of 1957, student theatre in Cambridge evinced a noticeable decline in quality for two years. The widely predicted falling off of interest and effort, however, failed to materialize: the student performers and crews on the whole continued to do well as their gifts and experience allowed, given a shortage of talented directors among the undergraduate body...
...uncontrollable shock of hair, a dazzling smile. In manner he is alert, incisive, speaking in short, terse sentences in a chowderish New England accent that he somehow makes attractive (even when he pronounces Cincinnati as "Since-in-notty" in Cincinnati), reaching with no apparent effort into a first-class mind for historical anecdotes or classical allusions. Like Ike, who is 27 years his senior, he projects a kind of conviction and vigor even when talking of commonplace things in a commonplace...
...working class...
...architecture at the Columbia graduate school before deciding that his real talents lay elsewhere. "When I looked at the work of my classmates," he said, "my ideas seemed very mediocre to me. It appeared very unlikely that the four great architects of the century would come from the same class in the same small school of architecture, so I decided I might do better for myself in another field...