Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Certainly the class of 1930 shows as many successes as any other to come out of Harvard: numerous lawyers and investment counselors, writers and editors, doctors, the author of "Around the World in Eighty Days," and the president of the Polaroid Corporation...
...when Harvard men of other years would have headed for the open path to success, the class of '30 found itself roadblocked by the Depression. Not surprisingly, these men often took whatever jobs they could get: Cameron Blaikie Jr. '30 reports positions as an apprentice iron worker, salesman for a chimney-cleaning oufit, bill collector, and finally a railroad...
Many of the Class of '30 moved into the River Houses with an eye toward a room in the Yard senior year. Spencer Brown '30 says he remembers most vividly conversations with his classmates about "life, God, science, and all those things we didn't know much about." He adds that, as a scholarship student, he felt the constraints of social class, symbolized by the automobile and the gentleman's C. "It was easy to distinguish between those with the Back Bay accents and cars and those who were interested in getting on the Dean's list and keeping their...
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt, then governor of New York, delivered the 1930 Commencement address to his son James and the rest of the graduating class, he may not have realized the effects his later actions as president would have on the political ideas of the group entering "the company of educated men and women...
...Deal, which most members of the Class of '30 alternately describe as 'a handout" and "a giveaway program" helped codify many of their ideas about the economy. "It's not only Carter but the whole socialist giveaway, welfare state, with its endless social programs and wasteful spending, begun under Roosevelt and propagandized by those like J.K. Galbraith and other college professors who accept good salaries and hope for tenure and long vacations, as well as sabbatical leaves, and yet so hypocritically criticize capitalism that provides this largesse for them," Gordon B. Worcester writes to his class. But Elliot, a lobbyist...