Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college refuse of take much thought for the future. The present is too engrossing, the future, hazier perhaps that it ought to be, is vaguely understood to be full of various unpleasantnesses which will be sad enough when encountered. Most undergraduates have a shrewd suspicion that alumni associations exist for the purpose of collection debts incurred in happier days and they have not yet arrived at the stage where an annual dinner or weekly luncheon holds the essence of the glory that was college...
...print an apology for your article of Oct. 22 and tell your readers what has actually been the career of Dr. Faunce at Brown. He came to the university at the close of a bitter controversy over his predecessor which rendered a large portion of the alumni hostile to the new president. Because of his tact, honesty, and faith in the university, the breach was quickly healed. A natural reserve made it difficult for Dr. Faunce at first to enter into the life of the undergraduates, but this defect soon dwindled away because of his genuine desire to share...
...child of the rich may enter the school. But many a half pagan urchin, wont to roam wildly in the Georgia hills, has been received. There are 7,000 names on the alumni list of the Berry Schools...
With the discontinuance this year of the Harvard game a great deal of discussion has been aroused among undergraduates and alumni of both universities. The latest development is the announcement by Dr. Frederick W. Marvel that he would like to see the football relations between the two colleges resumed. This announcement removes another possible stumbling block from the path of the resumption of the series and brings that resumption of the series and brings that resumption still closer...
...annually increasing importance to the College and the Graduate Schools, it is perhaps advisable to explain for the benefit of those members of the University who know nothing about it something of its origin and purpose. The Fund was founded late in 1925 by a group of Alumni who felt that the graduate body should have an organization through which a man might contribute each year to the University a small or large amount of money, according to his individual means, entirely for unrestricted use. An Alumni board known as the Harvard Fund Council, consisting of 30 members each...