Twenty-fifth reunioners may still recall the opening days of their final half year at Harvard, a year that has gone down as the last of an era in the nation and in Cambridge.

Rumors were widespread along the Gold Coast and throughout the Yard that the College would have to be recessed because of increasing cases of influenza, but the big news of the opening year was that Coach Arnold Horween '29 would return to lead the football team toward another highly successful year. The announcement gave further encouragement that 1929 would prove a fitting climax to the Roaring Twenties.

A warning sign appeared in the University daily (buried on the back page) during the first week of the winter term. The CRIMSON noted that a new book of Dutch satirical cartoons had been added to the Baker Library that might be "of interest in connection with the present stock market decline..." This momentary awareness of economics was immediately dropped, however, for more important discussions of the feasibility of Senator Kellogg's efforts toward world peace.

Ordinary activities marked 1928-29 as the latest in a series of Prohibition years. Undergraduates of the time will undoubtedly recall Old Golds' frantic "not a cough in a carload" campaign, and the company's resulting painful honesty in reporting that only at Harvard did any other cigarette prove more popular than its own.

On May 28, 1929, Mary Pickford appeared at the UT in her first "talkie," Coquette, and the freshly established "Air Colleges" were trying to attract "university men" to their summer courses in sport and stunt flying. The Illinois Retail Clothiers Association predicted that the college student for 1929 would wear a light gray suit, black shoes and a soft collar with rich cream tie.

The University was characterized by increasing immortalization of "Harvard indifference." President Lowell, the preceding fall, had announced plans that were to attack both the worst forms of this indifference and the general form of living. But the "rat" houses along the Gold Coast were still the home of the elect. The CRIMSON still felt called upon to defend the buildings in their Indian summer from the observations of the Cornell Daily Sun.

Polo Team Undefeated

Captain and Third Marshal Forrester A. Clark was then leading his polo team to an undefeated season. Under the coming depression, this sport would be among the first to drop from among the foremost group of minor sport activities. The squash team, which attracted more members of the College in the winter term than any other, again sent its best players Northward ostensibly to compete in the Canadian Championships. The preceding winter, one of the Crimson players had won the tournament, but his main objective in competing had been to bootleg whiskey back across the line into the country.

R. S. Morison '30 caught the flavor of the times with his Kiplingesque verse, "Back Bay."

"Come you back to old Back Bay,

Where they turn night into day;

Can't you hear the bass drum boomin' in

the Ball Rooms of Back Bay?

On the Road to Old Back Bay

Where the bean and codfish play,