Burroughs in the "Harvard Class Album" (1936)





Cambridge, Massachusetts, US: Harvard College (yearbook), 1936.
13.75" x 11" x 1.25", 295 pages, hardcover without dust-jacket as issued.

The Harvard Class Album 1936, which is a similar, yet different book than the Harvard College Freshman Red Book 1936. Published by Harvard College, this is a very large and heavy album with additional pictures of the campus and the varying rooming houses.

William Seward Burroughs appears at page 108 of this large book with a short bio. No other note of Burroughs appears.

Contents: 

  • "University Views" (photographs)
  • "Harvard's Three Hundreth Year" by Jerome D. Greene (essay with photographs)
  • "Clubs and Fraternities" (photographs)
  • "Officers of the University":
    • "The Corporation" (photographs)
    • "The Deans" (photographs)
    • "Officers of Administration" (photographs)
    • "Officers of Instruction" (photographs)
    • "Medical Supervision" (photographs)
    • "Coaches: Major Sports" (photographs)
    • "Coaches: Minor Sports" (photographs)
  • "The Class":
    • "Class History" by Malcolm Donald Perkins
    • "Class Officers: Freshman Year" (photographs)
    • "Permanent Class Officers" (photographs)
    • "Senior Class Officers" (photographs)
    • "Class Ode" by Lewis Perry, Jr.
    • "Class Poem" by Francis Whitfield
    • "President Conant's Message" by James B. Conant
    • "In Memoriam"
    • Class photos
  • "The Houses":
    • "Adams House" by Richard B. Johnson (essay, photographs, and student list)
    • "Dudley Hall" by Fred F. Plimpton (essay, photographs, and student list)
    • "Dunster House" by Gordon Robertson and John Lawrence Hall (essay, photographs, and student list)
    • "Eliot House" by D. W. Brown and Robert Chafee (essay, photographs, and student list)
    • "Kirkland House" by Shaun Kelly and Benjamin Riggs (essay, photographs, and student list)
    • "Leverett House" by Robert Hey Rawson (essay, photographs, and student list)
    • "Lowell House" by Wilton Snowden Burton (essay, photographs, and student list)
    • "Winthrop House" by John Dorman (essay, photographs, and student list)
  • "Reviews":
    • "The Years in Limbo" by Frank Sweetser
    • "Football" by F. Stanton Deland, Jr.
    • "Hockey" by Henry B. Robbins
    • "Baseball" by Henry B. Sawyer, Jr.
    • "Crew" by Paul Henshaw
    • "Track" by J. W. Bryant
    • "Basketball" by Harold E. Jahn
    • "Boxing" by LeMoyne White
    • "150-Pound Crew" by Thomas J. Darcey
    • "Cross Country" by F. Gorham Brigham
    • "Fencing" by Richard J. Youdin
    • "Golf" by Melwin Hill
    • "Lacrosse" by Richard J. Currie
    • "Polo" by John H. Bartol
    • "Rugby" by Hayden Channing
    • "Skiing" by Adams Carter
    • "Soccer" by Whitney G. Case, 2nd
    • "Squash Racquets" by Albert G. Hale
    • "Swimming" by J. Gordon Scannell
    • "Tennis" by E. Rotan Sargent '36
    • "Wrestling" by Hayden Estey
    • "Intramural Athletics" by Perry J. Culver
  • "Publications":
    • "Advocate" by James Boyle
    • "Crimson" by Arthur A. Ballantine, Jr.
    • "Lampoon" by Robert Terrall
  • "The Drama" by Whitney Cook
  • "Music" by T. C. Osborne
  • "Glee Club" by Gardner Middlebrook
  • "Pierian Sodality of 1808" by James L. Morrisson
  • "Phillips Brooks House" by Raymond Dennett
  • "The Student Council" by Thomas H. Quinn
  • "Debating" by Thomas H. Quinn
  • "Phi Beta Kappa" by Elmer R. Best
  • Index

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