Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...size of Yale College has become an increasingly important question since its enrollment was doubled by the addition of the Ph.B. course in 1919. Alumni who knew the intimate and democratic life of the Old Brick Row and now witness the rise of cliquishness and the disintegration of class unity, decry the changes that have come with expansion...
Here it is that the Harvard Fund proves its value. For two years the money received through it has been turned over to the University with no questions, no restrictions. With each year more alumni find this a convenient method of giving. This is one matter to which the old shibboleth "No gift too small, and none too large" applies. The plan doubtless has its defects, but thus far it has functioned satisfactorily, and its increasing popularity points to future success...
...Harvard Fund Council begins operations for 1928 today, when nearly 48,000 letters of appeal for the Harvard Fund will be mailed from Lehman Hall to the Alumni body of the University. Twenty-five thousand of these are signed by the Class Agents of the classes from 1852 to 1928, inclusive. The balances are sent from the central office to the Alumni of the several Graduate Schools. This is the same date as that on which similar letters were mailed in 1926 and 1927, the first two operative years of the Fund...
...audience harder to please than does a university president, whose acts are viewed by all the world; and no factor of his work is more troublesome than the financial part. The president of the back-country institution must spend far too much of his time visiting well-to-do alumni. President Lowell, on the other hand, is perhaps embarrassed by a flood of riches...
...Hanford Ph.D. '23, associate professor of Government and Dean of Harvard College, has been invited to speak, as well as C. C. Buell '23, former Crimson gridiron luminary. Other prominent members of the Alumni body and faculty members will also attend the meeting, and it is expected that some of them will express the standpoint of the graduate body in regard to the enlarging of the Stadium...