Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard wants to come here, but the difficulty comes in preserving a balance of types, keeping serving a balance of types, keeping everyone financially afloat, and preserving the philosophy of "opportunity for all" which keeps Harvard a national college. It involves controlling the pressures of mounting applications, rising tuition, alumni fathers, and beefing up the football team...
...convinced we're going to be deluged with applications," Wallace MacDonald of the Financial Aid Office says. "There are enough controlling factors to keep the numbers down. The schools are getting better at guidance, and alumni are doing a good job of counseling. It's the alumnous who bears the brunt of the rejection slip, and he is going to discourage anyone from applying who he thinks...
...gain a greater variety of attitudes on the subject, the Admissions Subcommittee will also discuss its provisional findings with alumni and with admissions officials of other Eastern colleges...
Later in June, a group of Harvard lacrosse players wrote a letter to the alumni who had participated in the sport, informing them of the situation. President Pusey and Athletic Director Bolles received over two hundred letters of protestation, demanding explanation...
Jonathan F. Beecher '58-4 has been awarded "a month in Paris" as the guest of a Frenchwoman, who is mother of two alumni. She had offered to have an undergraduate of the College's choice spend one month in her home "as a member of the family." A committee which chose Beecher is composed of a representative of the Department of Romance Languages and one from the Dean's Office...