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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rutland (Vt.) Junior College, founded 1946, the first three years had been bitterly hard. To begin with, the original $150,000 fund-raising campaign had fallen short by $60,000. Tuitions ($400 a year) failed to bridge the gap. Then the trustees asked the Rutland city council for help. That involved a referendum, but last week it was still a month away, and Rutland's 16-member faculty had not been paid since mid-March. Facing these facts, President Benjamin B. Warfield, a 44-year-old Navy veteran, went to the college books for figures. The college needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Student Affair | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...varsity race will be the climax of an afternoon-long regatta, which will begin at 2:30 p.m. The weather bureau predicts far better racing conditions than prevailed last week, when the 150's were postponed until after dark...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Crews Face MIT, BU This afternoon | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

...weeks ago, about 30 graduate students held a bull session. The result is the two-day Harvard Conference for World Peace, scheduled to begin Friday at 7:30 p.m. in New Lecture Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peace Rally Is Set for Next Friday Night | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard Fund is an alumni organization created in 1925 to raise unrestricted money each year for the University. Grad school alumni will begin this year to conduct their own drives in association with the Fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fund Council Calls on Class Of '49 for Anniversary Gift | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

...starting signal, the highly-strung athletes will simultaneously begin to run, to roll their hoops, and to squeal. The race ends at the Chapel, where the winner will receive a wreath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Really Gets Rolling Today | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

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