Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alumni Bulletin issued yesterday was an announcement that Professor Frank William Taussig '79, of the department of Economics, had been honored by the British Academy in his election as a Corresponding Fellow of that organization...
...open-minded liberal, President Little took an active part in the question of racial exclusion at Harvard three years ago. In a ringing speech to the alumni he denounced the exclusion policy. Since taking charge at Maine he has been a severe critic of educational methods; recently he was quoted as saying that the American colleges were best fitted for turning out "machine-made aristocrats." He is a strong believer in the personal value of education, and has said that he hopes to see the day when the personal interview will succeed the written examination...
...Hall was built at the far end of the campus it was the first undergraduate dormitory to have plumbing and running water installed. Previously the campus pump had served all ablutionary and minor beverage requirements, winter in and summer out. The luxury of the projected Vanderbilt outraged the Yale alumni to the point of frenzy and many were the heated protests against its brass faucets and hot showers. What was Yale coming to? Such gilded youth as these would never beat Harvard in football. Running water indeed! In their time...
Directors of college endowment campaigns are developing a technique that rivals the proverbial versatility of the cat-killing profession. There are now a score of ingenious ruses for extricating funds from fat pockets among alumni and benevolent friends-class insurance, class honor rolls, winning football teams, and (old but infallible) honorary degrees. Last week, headquarters of the Hampton-Tuskegee Endowment Fund uncovered a new trick, successfully worked upon Donor George Eastman, Rochester, N. Y., camera...
...seem to be the posthumous performances of his late asthmatic, or strangled, uncle. Between seances, telepathic messages, furniture upheavals and the receipt of "quaint ciphers, he (she) writes a diary. Hounds bay, doors crash, mysterious lights shine on headlands and creep under beds. Uncle's ghost marches in the alumni parade, sheep are slaughtered, four people die quite violently. A very devil of an uncle, yet you and the professor can never be sure it is he who is responsible, let alone how to make him listen to reason. Do not read this book tonight if you must catch...