Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan last week, the alumni association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons assembled to honor a stalwart member. He was 75-year-old Dr. William Henry Welch, Director of the School of Hygiene and Public Health of Johns Hopkins University since 1916. He also has been President of the Board of Directors of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research since 1901; trustee of the Carnegie Institution since 1906; a Brigadier General in the Officers Reserve Corps (he served in the Army during the War) ; holder of the Distinguished Service Medal and many another; recipient of a string of honorary...
...dinner Dr. Darrach followed Dr. Henry E. Hale, President of the alumni association, in lauding his double co-alumnus?of Yale and the College of Physicians and Surgeons...
...cramped, too citified, too expensive. The real reason was concealed- the "bigwigs" of the University's colleges were afraid of being nudged and bunted by one another's reputations and personalities if brought to such close quarters. With the option's expiration imminent, London alumni conducted dignified propaganda; London students-visualizing escape from "the merciless, grasping Bloomsbury landladies" into cloistered dormitories like those at Oxford and Cambridge-prepared a "rag" (street demonstration savoring of humor and earnestness...
...help provide these means, the Harvard Fund was first considered in 1919. In 1923 the plan of the Harvard Fund was authorized jointly by the Harvard Alumni Association and the Associated Harvard Clubs. With the approval of the President and Fellows and the Board of Overseers, and with the appointment of the members of the Harvard Fund Council, the Fund has now been established...
...That among the 44,000 alumni, there are a large number whose sense of obligation and loyalty will make them welcome a well-ordered plan whereby they may contribute annually an amount fixed by each contributor for himself for the use of the University...