Word: suspects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact remains that only about half of the graduating class shows up for the week of unmitigated senior glory. This is a preposterous state of affairs. For one thing, it leads the outside world to suspect that a large body of the class gives way to sloth. Admittedly, a senior who plans to see his four years through to the end is going to have to hustle around a little getting tickets and hotel reservations for his relatives. Too, the whole affair isn't exactly for free...
Like many a Harvard tradition, Class Day's origin cannot be specifically dated, and its various features grew into fashion bit by bit over a considerable period of time. "We suspect that the origin of the literary exercises on Class Day," James Russell Lowell wrote in 1874, "may be traced by no doubtful inference to an attempt of the Overseers, beginning in 1754 and renewed at intervals for some ten years, to improve the elocution of the students by requiring the public recitation of dialogues translated out of Latin into English." Lowell was, however, evidently unfamiliar with the diary...
...nebulousness" is, of course, a function of the newness of our science: but nebulousness exists on the frontiers of even the most advanced and rigorous of sciences,-- which we are not. Those of a "factual" inclination, therefore, have every right to suspect that they may be unhappy in any science. We do suggest, however, that even at our present relatively primitive level of theoretical development, our work is of some value to those interested in understanding important areas of behavior. Norman Birnbaum Michael Olmsted Teaching Fellows in Social Relations
...California, six three and 210 pounds. Wilson slipped into Harvard unnoticed by the coaches because he wanted to get a Ph.D. in German. He was discovered by a member of the German Department and referred to Valpey. This is the only case of its kind in Harvard history, we suspect...
...home of the annual titanic, reports from Still-man Infirmary indicated that all was not well in the Lampoon camp. Apparently suffering from an overdoes of a mysterious oriental drug, the Poonsters were lying on beds of pair tonight. "We were tricked,' groaned Oliveyl Q"isling, relief hurler. "I suspect Deceitful Cockatoo of feeding the team some poisoned rhubarbs at the game...