Word: alumni
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With young Harvard and Yale alumni playing a prominent part in the turbulent Passaic, N. J., strike, the latest upheaval in the textile industry, the University is opening its annual competition for the chance of subsidized research work in the field of industrial relations...
...recently organized Harvard Fund Council, through which the Senior class has arranged to accumulate the funds for its twenty-fifth anniversary gift to the University, has issued the following statement of the history, development, and purpose of the Fund. Mr. Thomas W. Lamont '92, President of the Harvard Alumni Association, in commenting on the newly formed organization said...
...current number of the Alumni Bulletin, Eidon Griffin '16 suggests that the prestige of this degree could be restored by reserving it for those who wish to secure a command of their subject for intellectual rather than professional reasons. In order to enhance its distinction, he would require two years of graduate residence instead of the single one now prescribed. The work of these two years would be cultural rather than technical. The aspirant for this degree, though left more to his own resources than he had been in his undergraduate career, would still have access to lectures...
...Harvard man living in an extremely non-Harvard community," Moris Duane '23 writes out of his heart to thank the Alumni Bulletin for its recent tabulation of the accomplishments of University graduates in politics. When now "some unmannerly person" tells him that "It certainly was lucky for Harvard that William didn't play," he "can come right back with some light persiflage ending with the telling argument that Harvard has 26 members of Congress and three Supreme Court justices." His most distressing converational problem, he implies, has thus been solved...
...than the writers of the nation's sport stories. Yet it is exactly this that makes universities resent football, that their standing should rise and fall with the numerals on the stadium scoreboard. Another, suggested by Mr. Duane, which might have a certain passing effectiveness, is to provide all alumni with unanswerable tables of statistics...