Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for the changes, according to Bold, was the desire to strengthen the Program for Harvard College. "The President of the University has told us that he still needs $25 million," Bold said. "The President feels that a really topnotch football team might stimulate some of those slow-footed alumni...
...Atlanta, U.S. Judge Boyd Sloan ruled on the petition of three Negroes to enter Georgia State College of Business Administration, found that a state law requiring alumni sponsorship of applicants violates the 14th Amendment because there are no Negro alumni to sponsor Negro applicants. The ruling opened the way for Negroes to apply to all 19 schools in the state's 35,000-student white college system, left it up to Georgia to decide whether to close them all by invoking a state law banning integrated colleges...
...President Pusey asserted that in order to avoid keeping college teaching "a depressed profession" any longer, higher education will have to seek increased help "from all the sources of support which have thus far been developed," including endowments, students and their families, alumni, business, foundations, and government...
This year Dunster will sponsor a dinner for its returning alumni, if enough former Funsters show interest, Fair said. "This is the beginning of further developments which will place members in the Houses for 25th Reunions," he noted. Lowell House is also planning a dinner for the spring...
Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House, also thought that Reunions centered in the Houses were "a likely development," but he said they would be "slow in coming." Technical problems would stand in the way of lodging returning alumni in their former Houses, he asserted...