Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they go out to their country club to play golf or polo, the well-to-do of Buffalo pass a militant group of stone buildings to which they point with constantly increasing pride as the University of Buffalo. Not many members of the country club are alumni of the University. But in the past decade the University had increasingly entered the country club's consciousness, through the good offices of that potent Cornell alumnus-trustee, liberty-loan driver, reparations expert, friend of Owen D. Young, "double" of Governor Roosevelt, lawyer (Kenefick, Cooke, Mitchell & Bass) and banker (Marine Trust)-Walter...
...Schoellkopf family gave $1,500,000. Teachers in Buffalo's public schools gave $23,244. Publisher Edward Hubert Butler of Buffalo's Evening News gave $50,000. The Hoefler Ice Cream Co. gave $2,500. Driver Cooke and three other trustees gave $800,000. Out-of-town alumni sent $29,450 and 175 students at the Law School raised $2,963.50. . . . When finally the crusade was over and all the cash in hand, Driver Cooke said: "I'm very happy-and goddam tired...
...will be difficult, in fact it will be next to impossible, to convince the officials, the alumni, and the adherents of the small colleges that they are pursuing a course entirely divergent from the trend of progressive and modern education--that they cannot hope to compete on an equal footing with the larger universities in teaching. Sentiment, tradition, and college loyalty are factors against which even the most logical arguments can hardly hope to prevail. These intangible feelings alone are a guarantee of the continuance of the small college, and their disbanding may be considered a thing...
...second annual meeting of the Harvard Economic Society, to be held today and tomorrow at the Hotel Statler in Boston, a number of Harvard alumni and professors will speak, among them H. B. Canderblue, Ph.D...
Four Harvard alumni have been appointed to fill vacancies on the Harvard Fund Council, governing board of the Fund. They are F. M. Alger '99 of Detroit, Michigan; Dr. E. G. Stillman '08 of New York City; P. C. Cabot '21 of Boston; and Lawrence Coolidge '27 of Boston. Thus far in 1929 the Fund has received contributions from 5,698 alumni; it is closing its fourth year of operation...