Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the status of the new journalism in the colleges: On the one hand an increasing group of young editors bent upon securing a greater measure of freedom of expression; on the other an equally determined army of presidents, faculty members, and reactionary alumni determined that open and frank student treatment of controversial topics be stopped at all costs...
...following dispatch treats of the article published in the current Yale Alumni Weekly, discussing the application of the small college system to Yale. The article was called forth by the recent recommendation of the Harvard Student Council Committee on Investigation of Education in the University. That the plan would not be a suitable solution for conditions at Yale is the opinion expressed by the editors of the Weekly...
...Haven, Conn., May 22.--Yale must find an element of social solidarity to replace that which was lost when required chapel was abolished, according to the Yale Alumni Weekly. Editorially it suggests remedies to meet the situation, declaring that Harvard's solution of small college units, like those at Oxford and Cambridge, will not do. The Weekly also says that the Yale secret society system, which alone remains of elements of the Yale social life, is unequal to the demands of the present situation. The Weekly advances no constructive remedy, but says, in summing up the existing condition...
...During the same years he was vice-president of the New England Division of Associated Harvard Clubs and for two years was a member of the committee appointed by the Board of Overseers to visit the Division of Geology. He is a director of the Harvard Alumni Association. He was appointed executive secretary of the Harvard Fund Council last September...
...establishment of the Harvard Fund fills a long felt need of the alumni body, in that it enables all to contribute something towards a debt which most of us feel we owe the University. Heretofore, many who would have liked to contribute have been deterred by embarrassment, on account of the smallness of the amount they could afford to give...