Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keeps a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in which his name is mentioned. He receives, from schoolgirls throughout the U. S., admiring letters. So alleged the Amherst Junior Year Book of John Coolidge. The President's son, Amherst College Junior, is himself a member of the Junior Year Book editorial board...
...addition we have bought about 60 tons of paper, of all sizes and shapes and kinds, Whatman's filter papers, seismograph paper, writing paper, toilet paper, napkins, towels, wrapping paper, photograph paper, blotting paper, building paper, paper boxes, paper confetti, paper for books and printing, card-board, press board, Japanese lanterns...
Before Harvard University had broadened its representative membership by making direct efforts to attract men from the south and west its government was, and very properly, largely in the hands of New England alumni. Close association with the center of activity was considered a necessity for election to the Board of Overseers: and since comparatively few candidates lived in places far from Cambridge there arose a custom which has been followed with more or less regularity of selecting prominent graduates in either Boston or New York for the offices. Recent elections have shown that this tradition is still an active...
...Batchelder realizes the difficulty of combining active cooperation between alumni and faculty with non-residents. To obviate this he proposes quarterly meetings for the entire assemblage and also monthly meetings for Boston members, the latter covering the details and routine. This and an enlargement of the Board by the addition to each class of Overseers of two appointed members, making the total forty-two instead of thirty, would allow for increase in the national representation, without decreasing the efficiency of the organization...
This proposal, or at least its spirit, for such radical departures demand exact scrutiny before acceptance, is heartily commendable. As the geographical ratio of student enrollment has extended, so should the enrollment in Board of Overseers. It is not that a Board made up entirely of Boston or Cambridge graduates would not prove as effective as one whose membership included graduates from between the two coasts; men attaining the honor of Overseerships have Harvard's interests too close at heart to neglect her welfare or to ignore any one of her many compound parts. The reason for this move...