Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...account of Stanford's Hoover reception would be complete, however, if it represented the university's attitude as one of unalloyed satisfaction with Herbert Hoover. Like any other social microcosm, the Stanford community (faculty, students, trustees, alumni) has its discontented minority-men who will never agree that all Hoover has done for Stanford has been for the best. They complain, chiefly, that under the Hoover influence-he has been on the Board of Trustees since 1912 -Stanford has changed from a liberal arts college of limited enrolment, which it was founded to be, into an evergrowing institute...
This, uttered last week, was not a college proctor's description of a rowdy alumni reunion, nor a gang foreman's account of a herd of roustabouts let loose in a gin mill. .It was a description, by an officer of the .law in Pennsylvania, of an orgy last week conducted by other Pennsylvania officers of the law in defiance of a law which, they afterward observed, few persons of their acquaintance believe in anyway...
President Alderman has gained the confidence of the alumni, some of whom regarded him as a suspicious crusader in the early years. One graduate, a potent Manhattan banker, has been in the habit of returning to the Virginia campus several times a year, just to talk with and listen to the sonorous and friendly President Alderman. Perhaps it was this banker who last week gave, anonymously, $5,000,000 to the University of Virginia. Half of the income from this fund will be used for scholarships and fellowships...
...clock--Annual exercises of the Harvard Alumni Association in the Sever Quadrangle...
...page booklet, "The History and Traditions of Harvard College," made late last night, revealed that about half of the available 600 copies of the limited 1928 Commencement Issue had been sold. Orders from as far west as Chicago also arrived and substantiated the probability of many returning alumni and parents of Seniors being disappointed in delayed attempts to purchase the volume...