Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minor change under an athletic endowment would be the probable abolishment of admission charges for undergraduates and alumni years ago, when the Harvard Stadium was first built, the students were promised free seats at all the games as soon as the debts were paid off. If this endowment should ever become a reality, Harvard would be able to keep her promise at last...
...matter is of even more importance to a partly state supported institution. With these the taxpayers are to be considered, a group far in excess of any alumni body, yet few college officials and teachers appreciate the fact. The attitude of some of these is that dirty linen should not be washed in public. To this a sufficient answer is that it is better to be washed in public than not at all. They forget that once an incorrect story gets in print, subsequent denials will never catch up with the lie. They also fail to remember that news cannot...
...especially true of continuing conditions, brought out by studies of the institution itself, its structure, its traditions, its policies, its results. The more the public knows about the University of Virginia, the better opinion will be about it, the more liberal will be appropriations for it. --University of Virginia Alumni Bulletin...
...following article was written for the Alumni Bulletin by the undersigned members of the University Board of Preachers. This Sunday there is to be memorial service in St. Paul's Cathedral, Boston, in honor of the late minister who prior to his death held the office of Bishop of Western New York State...
...plan of abolishing gate receipts would naturally be paralleled by a furthering of intramural athletics, and an ultimate goal of the least possible intercollegiate sport. If this were carried through to perfection, the problem of individual professionalism would be settled finally; for the spirit that moves anxious alumni to subscribe to funds that will aid so-and-so to stay in college a while longer and insure the Big Rival's defeat next fall, would hardly stir in an appeal for financial aid to help the Freshmen beat the Sophomores...