Less Entertainment, More Renewal of Friendship Is Keynote of '13 Reunion

The Reunion's purpose should be to meet again those you used to know and to become acquainted with those you did not know," said Robert Tunis '13 when interviewed Friday about plans for the 25th reunion of his class this June.

Men who have had reunions recently have felt that a little too much stress was laid on entertainment and not enough on renewing contacts with the college and their classmates, he explained.

With this feeling in mind, the class of 1913 reunion committees are planning a less strenuous program with plenty of time every day to sit around and talk for a while. Classmates and their families will dine, dance, watch a cabaret show the first night, under the elms in the Yard if the night is clear.

A field day with sports for all comes the next day, and a pops concert at Symphony Hall in the evening. Class day exercises in the Stadium and the Yale Baseball game are on the rester for the third day. After Commencement exercises in the Yard on the last day, the class meets for the Farewell Luncheon and then departs for home.

Every day before supper, a few hours are left open as a rests period for getting reacquainted and it is this feature which makes the 1913 reunion different from others of the past.

Perhaps best known among the several hundred men of 1913 who will be in Cambridge during reunion week are Governor George H. Earle of Pennsylvania and Adolph A. Berle, a member of President Roosevelt's original brain trust and now assistant secretary of State.

The first class to go through college under President Lowell, one of its most vivid memories of college days is the inauguration ceremony held for him in the Stadium during its Freshman year, according to Tunis.