Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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The Class of 1931 SOME strange destiny plots out a kaleidoscopie web of facts, instances and person- alities, no detail of which could be truthfully chronicled. Such as it is, it is the history of our Class. In a general way 1931 has merely continued the hereditary qualities of its predecessors. It has had its teams, its inner circles, and its organizations, highly developed one moment, and forgotten the next. An accountable proportion has directed the usual number to the usual activities, and a great diversity of interests has been satis- ' ' ' ' ' . f l '. l + 'el rc. Jeated hed through the customary channels. In these respects, nstory ias mu .y -1 P! itself, and little has been added or little subtracted from the whole. As individuals we came to college for reasons not wholly definite to most of us, per- haps because it proceeded in what seemed the normal course of events, perhaps because the foresight of our parents removed the necessity of any decision in the matter, perhaps because college and a college degree offered some vague prestige. or because our friends were on the way, or because we wanted an education, -not that we had any definite conception of what we meant by an education As individuals, we came bearing a mixed solution of ideas, interests, and desires not yet nholly crystallized into being. vague ' ' X d 'e hazy conceptions of things desiring to find expression in some concrete manner. 1 n n have found in college, and will continue to find, the complement of that solution necessary to precipitate the solid accomplishment, whatever it is, and crystallize the unshaped mass of ideas and opinions into tangible form. lVe have found some misty conception K that formerly could not be wholly defined, suddenly thrown into bold relief in some book, some course, or in an incident in the hfe of some particular activity. Only 'L selected group has experienced the gruellmg afternoons of practice in one I 1 rv sport or another, the fellowslnp of the training table, and ultimately the struggle of a Yale game. Only a selected few have reached the summit in the arduous climb for mana ferial honors or literary COI'l'lIJCl.llLlOllS. But all of us have sought a11d found ex- : Q3 1 , iression in some held of endeavour, whether it be athletlcs, music, literature, or scholar- 1 . ship. These, however, are only the outward marks of the year's work, since for every one of us who may have found distinction, some niche within the class, there is another who has found ll'i'IIl-Wiffi. For there are among us many, wholly dependent upon the group for their existence, to whom solitude and relaxation from enforced activity is well nigh unbearable. The have few resources within themselves to fall back on, and of necessit . . . . , , Y they run ln d1'oves seekmg some new held to conquer, or at least, to scramble in. lhey find outlets for themselves, the go Jlaces and do tlnn fs, in an attem it to get awa , . . . . - D D Y f their individual selves. And on the other hand, there are those who are seldom rom heard or spoken of perhaps, but who may have aclneved a knowledge of and a conhdence . in themselves that insure them independence, and when the storm signals of circum- stances are set, are not feverishly peut up within the confines of their own minds. For many of us it is the activities that are the Open Sesame to our own being. Beginning with but few ambitions, we find through persistent effort in some field an ' t ' t becomin f deeply inbedded, and greatly satisfying as it progresses, and we have in tres P 3, - - V broken upon the discovery of some hidden sprmg within us, wlnch bubbles forth with new pleasures and adventures. The more we indulge tlns aroused curiosity, the greater our desire to go on to the full extent if possible, and it is only our natural limitations that check our attempts. It is as if we had discovere or ie rs' ' -,z in a succession of these discoveries we come more and more to tl1e greater discovery of the person, that we have formerly overlooked or failed to recognize in ourselves. 'l'hen we exult in it, and perhaps, believe ourselves to have found something which no one else l l l ' f und at least not to the same extent lVe believe ourselves to have been df tl fi t time mother thing which belonged to us, and cou c iavc. o , . . . ,. .. . . strangely favored with unusual intellectual powers, peculiarly singled out by some God of chance to discover tlns new forbidden secret of ourselves. And, maybe, we look upon our associates in a patronizing manner, wondering vaguely at the same time if they really appreciate our true worth. 24-

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