Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Most colleges here in America have on their governing boards alumni who are prominent business men. This interest of the business men in the college, and the need the college has of occasionally looking to the business men for advice and aid is a guarantee of advancement. Too often has the world of commerce scorned the colleges, as institutions dealing largely in theories, and its creators of intellectual snobs. Too often have the colleges, in turn, looked upon the business men as materialistic moneygrubbers. But with the coming of enlightened men of business as powers in the affairs...
Thomas Nelson Perkins '91 has been chosen to succeed Thomas William Lamont '92 as president of the Harvard Alumni Association. At the election, which took place at the annual October meeting of the directors this week, two vice presidents were selected, Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. '00, and E. H. Wells...
...newly elected vice-presidents succeed C. S. Pierce '95, and Malcolm Donald '99, both of Boston, who were elected at the 1925 October meeting of directors. Heretofore they have both been closely identified with the Alumni Association, Mallinckrodt as a director, and Wells as secretary, several years ago. The former is president of the Mallinckrodt Chemical Company, St. Louis, while the latter is a prominent New York book collector, associated with the firm of Edgar H. Wells and Company...
...directors' meeting, Leverett Saltonstall '14 of Boston was reelected treasurer of the association, and J. W. D. Seymour '17 of Cambridge, Secretary of Alumni Affairs and Director of Publicity of the University, was chosen to fill the office of secretary for another year...
...Redfield '13, were nominated as Directors to represent Harvard at Large,a and H.S. Ford and Jasper Whiting to serve in a similar capacity for M.I.T., at Large. Of the other Diresrtets, Delmar Leighton '19 was named to represent the officers of Harvard, and F.W.Moore '93, the Alumni, E.F. Steven will represent the students of M. I. T., while J.R. Barry '27, J.L. Pool '28, and H.G. Crosby '29, will represent respectively the Senior, Junior and Sophomore classes of the University...