Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thousand Men of Harvard have become the 48000. A survey of the alumni, made by the Harvard Fund Council, gives the number of alumni in each state, and shows the total to be 47,992. Almost a third of the alumni is in Massachusetts at the present time. Eleven thousand, in round numbers, living in Greater Boston. In New England as a whole, there are 19,451 graduates...
Nearly 500 have their homes in New York City. New York State is second to Massachusetts, with 7,482 Harvard graduates located in that state. The far West offers both the third heaviest concentration of alumni, and the least dense distribution. California holds 1,929 Harvard men, while Nevada, bordering California on the east, has only 22 Harvard graduates. Pennsylvania is fourth among the states with 1,908 alumni. Illinois and Ohio have 1,690 and 1,652 Harvard men respectively. New Jersey, with 1049 graduates in its confines, is the only remaining state with over 1000 alumni...
College of the City of New York experimented. Under the white rays of 33,000 watts of electric flood lights they defeated an alumni eleven 5-0 in a night game. Spectators followed the open plays; were puzzled by shadows in line plunges. The traditional grandstand background of spectators, girls, coonskin coats was blotted out. The experiment was deemed unsatisfactory for important games. A white ball was used...
...first the large cost of transportation was considered a serious obstacle to the appearance in the Stadium of the famous ten-foot drum and its attendants. A contribution from the H. A. A., and from Purdue Alumni, and a collection taken up in the college was supplemented by an offer from. Roxy, New York theatrical producer, for a one-night engagement at his theatre, insuring the needed funds...
...Harvard, you are being victimized by insidious propaganda. One Mr. Schierling of the Business School and Mr. George Ade, slang fablist extraordinary, Purdue alumni both have written lugubriously in the CRIMSON concerning their Alma Mater's chances today. But Mr. Schierling and Mr. Ade are chuckling up their respective sleeves. They don't really believe that "Purdue" is an old French word meaning "lost". Their motives, I suspect, are basely commercial...