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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Bayard S. Clark '40 of Philadelphia and Lowell House was chosen yesterday to deliver the annual Ivy Oration in the Class Day Exercises on Wednesday, June...
Traditionally, the speech is a humorous account of the class's four college years. Clark will be following in the footsteps of such Harvard greats as Albert Bushnell Hart '80, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus, George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, and Robert Benchley...
Judges for the selection of the Ivy Orator were Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, associate professor of Public Speaking, Vinton Freedley, Jr. '40, chairman of the Class Day Committee, Second Marshal Ernest J. Sargeant '40, and Samuel W. White, Jr. '40, member of the Class Day Committee...
...Crimson this morning is printed an impressive letter of "The Young Men of Harvard from Some of the Older Men of Harvard." It is signed by thirty-five members of the Class of 1917, most of whom fought in the World War. the letter will command the respect of every undergraduate, if only for the deep feeling that is clearly to be seen in it. These man have read the petition recently circulated at Harvard, voicing "determination never, under any circumstances, to follow in the footsteps of the students of 1917." In answer they have passionately affirmed something few would...
...gentlemen of the Class of 1917 assert that the duty of every citizen to bear arms in defense of his country is not open to discussion. But they agree that the country's policy is a fit subject for though and discussion by every citizen. It is this subject with which the petition deals. The document, signed by hundreds of Harvard students, is not an ironbound pacifist ukase. Behind it is the reasoned conviction that the way in which America drifted toward war in those years was unintelligent and unworthy of our nation. These are the footsteps we are determined...