Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pick most of their members from the Pudding. The Pore is most likely to elect the sons and relatives of old Porkies, closely examines each candidate's family tree. But congeniality counts as much as pedigree, and the three to 18 members whom the Pore elects from each class must be jolly good fellows. (Its definition of good fellowship, the leftist Harvard Progressive recently remarked, "rests on a good liquor capacity and a full agreement on the meaning of the word 'meatball.' ") The Pore abounds in crew men and polo players, seldom picks football players or Crimson...
Harvard's former Law Dean Roscoe Pound used to greet his entering class: "Gentlemen, take a good look at the persons seated on either side of you-for one of you will not be with us next year." Last week Yale's Dean Gulliver was able to say to his first-year class: "Gentlemen, take a good look at the men seated on either side of you-for both of them are Phi Beta Kappas." Yale's School, annually besieged by four times as many applicants as it can admit, can pick & choose...
...jobs immediately, most of them in Wall Street, at $2,000 to $2,400 a year. Ashbel Gulliver has been in charge of placing graduates since 1934, when he became assistant dean. A graduate of Groton School and of Yale (where he was top man in his law class in 1922), Dean Gulliver is rated a solid, enterprising administrator...
Medicine. When Dr. Milton Charles Winternitz resigned as dean of Yale's School of Medicine in 1935, he had quadrupled its $2,000,000 endowment, made it a first-class school. He was succeeded by Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones (Yale '10), who further added to the school's reputation. Dr. Bayne-Jones's most noteworthy achievement: establishing Yale as one of the nation's foremost cancer research centres, by means of the $10,000,000 Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research...
...names have been added to the ballot for the first Senior Class election, scheduled for tomorrow and Wednesday, it was announced last night. One more man, Edward P. Allis, 4th, has been placed on the Junior Album slate via the petition route...