Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Grandpop," said little George, age ten, as he put down the old man's Class Album, "didn't your classmates at Harvard have any sex life? Where were your hormones...
...Watch your language," said his grandfather, who had graduated in 1940. "As you can see by the record of our class, we were busy listening to classical music, reading good books, and speculating on the value of a liberal education. We had no time for scrontching, as one of my classmates used to put it. We were a sober and thoughtful generation, interested only in vital issues...
...Stop using big words," said his grandfather testily. "As a matter of fact, we did give it a thought now and then. But the men who published that book didn't think sex had any place in a dignified analysis of Harvard's three hundredth class. It wasn't of permanent interest, they said, how many members of my class were 99.44 pure, if you follow me. They said it was poor taste and didn't mean anything to talk about such things. Are you listening, George...
...article, written by Donald McD. D. Thurber '40, is based on an exhaustive questionnaire distributed to all Seniors and answered by 619 members of the Class of 1940. Sandwiched in among questions about the political views and family background of Seniors were two questions which dealt with sex, but the answers to these will not appear in the Album...
...that these figures are not of permanent value. First of all, they may not be accurate since they are questions which we believe many people may be prone to answer in jest. Secondly, these statistics are of temporary interest, and may not be regarded by members of our class as figures which they will care to refer to over the years in a class book...