Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although we have not made any direct appeal to the student body," Kemble said, "we will be happy to get donations from students in the University. The committee has received a few already...
Kemble also said he wished to correct any impression that since students here had not been directly asked to contribute, their gifts would not be welcome. He had avoided a student appeal, he added, because the committee felt that the job of raising money to defend Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, was primarily a faculty concern and that the drive should not receive too much publicity...
...four weeks since the original letter of appeal was sent to nearly 3000 persons holding Corporation appointments, some 200 have contributed less than half the money that the committee estimated would be needed, Kemble said...
...answer to the Graduate appeal, 'Cliffe alumnae gave $160,000 last year. This is the largest annual amount over raised in the history of the alumnae fund...
...major immediate danger is not that they will disappear, but that too few will major in them to keep their departments going, and that not enough students will enter teaching to sustain them in the future. The financial appeal of professions in the social and natural sciences underlies much of this danger. Business too often has demanded technically trained people though simultaneously mouthing approval of the humanities. Possibly a compromise between education and business could be worked out wherein business would assume much of the specialized training after graduation and depend on the colleges for more general, liberal instruction. Today...