Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alumni dinners "in honor of victorious teams," to which impressionable preparatory school neophytes are eclectically invited. (Examples: Brown, Dartmouth, Rutgers...
...Excerpts from a letter quoted by the New York Herald Tribune, from the president of an anonymous Southern college alumni association to a Manhattan alumnus, asking for help in ''caring for" a prospective footballer: "The man has already been picked by - and (coaches), and they say he looks mighty good. . . . We would be mighty glad if you would join us in helping us to raise the money needed, which is $600 . . . how about sending me a check...
Harvard applications, which include band, club, College, and Harvard alumni in the Graduate Schools numbered 5,885, with requests for 11,191 tickets, Graduate applications numbered 18, 482 for 23,258 tickets. There were 373 late applications, for 642 tickets...
Lest this new movement sound far too idealistic to be of practical importance, it is of importance to note that the theory of alumni education has already been adopted in one form or another at several colleges in this country. and with the most gratifying results. Such contacts have taken the form of reading lists as at. Dartmouth, and alumni short term sessions as at Lafayette, and in every case the response by the alumni to such efforts on the part of the college has shown that alumni education is a field which is pregnant with possibilities, but which...
...experience of those colleges which have made a start in cultivating an academical relationship with their alumni has proved that this belief is quite false. A real concern for study and education can be reinstilled in those who have been cut off from such activities for years; and with it, a man's relationship to his university becomes something more than the sporadic interest of the usual alumnus...