Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Figures covering the Yale Alumni Fund show that about 8,000 graduates contributed during the year ending June 30, 1929, and that since the establishment of the fund in 1890 it has given over four and a half millions to the University for current needs, at the same time building up a permanent endowment almost equal...
Visiting over 40 Harvard Clubs and gatherings scattered throughout the nation, the film produced for the Harvard Alumni Association by the University Film Foundation traveled several thousand miles last year. One print of the film was sent west, where it was shown as far away as Hawaii, before a group of Harvard men there. Another traveled to South America, where it was shown by R. W. Bliss '00, Ambassador to the Argentine. A third copy was carried to China by Professor J. M. Woods, who was present at the dedication ceremonies of Yenching University, near Peiping...
...addition to these out-of-the-way places, the film was shown in many American towns and cities, large and small, wherever a group of Harvard men, or a Club, asked to have it sent to them. This coming year the film will continue to visit audiences of alumni...
President Lowell and President Angoll of Yale will be among "the speakers of the universities, colleges, and leading preparatory schools which will be represented by delegates at the inauguration of Dr. G. A. Barbour as' tenth president of Brown University, on October 18. At the alumni gathering for the new president, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of New York, will present the greetings of the graduates...
...million out of their teams because they "get raw material, exploitation, and labor at slight cost. The schedule makers are planning five years ahead, signing contracts for attractive intersectional games, based no longer on natural rivalry or academic interest as has been the norm, but upon filling the stadium. Alumni, considering themselves stockholders, help to build the stadia, divert promising prep-school material to their particular plants, and ask only the dividends of victory over which they may gloat...