Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard has taken a bold step, but whether the step is forward or backward is a question. According to President Conant, the intention is to make drastic reductions in expenses for athletics and at the same time to build up an endowment fund to lessen the oft-decried commercialization of sport. The first is possible, but hardly desirable, the second desirable, but hardly possible...
...this new policy to place our athletic program on the same basis as the other activities of the University which are largely supported by endowment. The President and Fellows have agreed that they will endeavor to build up during the coming years an endowment fund for athletics,--a capital fund, the income of which will eventually become the support of intercollegiate and intramural sports. Gifts for this fund will be welcomed and it is expected that each year the Corporation will be able to set aside some money towards this fund...
...economic situation, no one charged with the responsibility of the finances of this University can face such a possibility with anything but alarm. A hand to mouth policy is no solution. The only satisfactory answer is to be found in drastic reductions in expenses and a sustained effort to build up an endowment fund...
...Anything to help build up a militant party!" cried gigantic, snaggle-toothed Representative Hamilton Fish of New York whose radio fan mail has infected him seriously with the Presidential...
...York and Albany before it went bankrupt. Its four passenger ships are the finest of their kind afloat. The Berkshire, world's largest river steamer, accommodates 2.400 passengers, has 413 staterooms. Night liners take 12 hours to cover their 160-mile route. Last week Buyer Rosoff promised to build "swell new boats," put the line on its sea-legs...