Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object of the Harvard Fund is to raise money by voluntary contribution from the alumni for the unrestricted use of the President and Fellows of the University. There is no suggestion of compulsion concerning either the fact of the subscription or the amount of it. A subscription blank is sent annually to every alumnus of the University, and the individual has absolute freedom of decision whether to subscribe or not, and how much. These blanks have been sent out to all members of the class of 1927, by Lawrence Coolidge, Class Agent...
...April9--Alumni...
...results justify the expense of larger teaching staffs so as to do this individual teaching, and higher salaries so as to get the best men to do it, no one will complain about that. The cost will be little compared to the advantages that will be gained. --Yale Alumni Weekly...
...subject, and that demands of its students anything but a human interest in it, in the field of true scholarship, publication is a gift to the civilization of the time. In the other field: very little of what is published has any permanent value at all. --Yale Alumni Weekly...
...this day of highly-organized alumni associations and million dollar endowment funds, the discovery that in raising funds for the erection of Stoughton and Holworthy Halls it was necessary to resort to lotteries is of considerable interest...