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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Alumni officer smiles contentedly. If only they were all like '54. Rich, successful and generous to their alma mater, they are ideal Harvard ambassadors, men the College would like to believe typical of its graduates...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: 25 Years of Over-Achieving | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...reunion week approaches, Harvard officials are pleased to note that 95.5 per cent said they were glad they were alumni. The fundraising goal for the 25th reunion is $1.6 million, for which an average contribution of $2300 from every living alumnus is needed. Yale's class of 1954 currently holds the record for any single class at any college with $1,636,000 donated. (1636 is the year of Harvard's founding and some officials suggested that Yale might have fudged the total a little to gall its ancient rival.) The Harvard Class of '54 had more than $1.3 million...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: 25 Years of Over-Achieving | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...charter," the student driver said as he slammed the Harvard shuttle bus door in the face of a couple of wet, Quad-bound students last week. Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, could only smile faintly to his precious bus cargo, a group of influential Harvard alumni known as the University Resources Committee...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: A Beginning and an End | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

...word here. Excellence in athletics can go hand in hand with excellence in the classroom, but one cannot sacrifice one for the other. Sports must continue to be an extension of the learning and maturation process at Harvard, and not an end in itself or a vehicle for alumni to recall vicariously their past glories...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: A Beginning and an End | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

...long-run. When paired with a possible boycott of the remainder of the Fund. Harvard students could use a carrot-and-stick strategy in dealing with the Corporation and its investment policy. If the Harvard Corporation continued its investment policy with firms with subsidiaries in South Africa, seniors and alumni could support the Biko Fund and boycott the remainder of the Gift Fund. If the Harvard Corporation adopted a more socially and morally responsible investment policy, then seniors and alumni could support both the Biko Fund and the remainder of the Harvard Gift Fund. In either case, seniors and alumni...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Biko Fund | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

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