Word: alumni
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...record 10,000 spectators. By 1902, at Yale Field, 30,000 showed up to watch Yale win 23-0. The hard-crunching action of the sport of football combined with the natural competitive fire of upper-crust Ivy League culture combined to create an event that players, students and alumni could look forward to each year. It was a precursor to any college football Big Game of today; Florida/Florida State; Michigan/Ohio State; Stanford/Cal--they're all descendants of the original Game, a test to determine the best team in a league, region, or, in especially exciting seasons, country...
According to a study Chauncey later conducted, the "screaming radicals" at Yale came disproportionately from the ranks of alumni legacy students and prep school graduates...
...said WHRB's goal is to do what it already does on a global scale. In doing that, the organization will rely on national media, alumni and current listeners to publicize the new Internet broadcasting...
...March, the group will have a big black-tie fundraiser, including alumni. The timing may coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Afro-American studies department, in which case, Johnson says, she hopes Faculty and students can coordinate celebratory events...
...years ago, former council president and vice-president Beth A. Stewart '00 and Samuel C. Cohen '00 proposed raising an endowment by soliciting our alumni in order to fund student groups in their perpetuity. After proposing this to the administration, it was decided that the College should give an additional $25,000 per year to student groups. The council would have had to raise about $500,000 to get this much per year, so we agreed to the deal. Now, even that additional $25,000 is not enough to fund our skyrocketing number of student groups...