Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...fanning of class hatred...
...commencement and reunions under agreement (at President James B. Conant's request) to avoid war arguments. They knew well that many an alumnus bitterly resented Harvard undergraduate pacifism. They listened politely to Secretary of State Cordell Hull as he called isolation "dangerous folly" at an alumni gathering, to Class Orator Tudor Gardiner (a Porcellian) as he declared: "America must not again be dragged into the anarchy that is Europe...
...Class Day, Harvard's 5,000 alumni and undergraduates trooped merrily out to the Stadium for traditional fun-making. Placarded, costumed and loaded with ammunition for the traditional confetti battle, they laughed at a light-hearted speech by Ivy Orator Bayard S. Clark. Then up rose Davis R. Sigourney, '15, Ivy Orator 25 years ago and a captain in World War I, to make the traditional alumni welcoming speech to graduates. Mr. Sigourney looked grim. His words were grimmer...
...class of '15," he began, ". . . should consider it a duty and a privilege to fight for the safety of our country. We would be proud to see our boys go out there and do the job again...
...festival in Germany, in 1913-the dance being an interpretation in "Eurythmics," the rage of the time, of the triumph of music over the furies of Hell in Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Before the real furies set sail over Europe the following summer, Lanny visits charming upper-class friends in England and Germany, glimpses the squalor of the lower classes...