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...year 1951-52 saw the reactivation of several additional alumni Schools Committees, bringing the total to more than 50. Kinnicutt noted a "distinct increase" in activity and interest among committeemen in the last year. The main problem areas for the alumni are still the Southeast and sections of the Far West. States like Kentucky, Arkansas and Nebraska have few College graduates, and most of the University alumni show little interest in the College. Areas like California and Texas have a different situation. Here, even when the Committees are well-manned, they must compete with excellent institutions like California and Stanford...
...miles by plane, bus, train and auto, made 524 speeches, campaigned in 41 of the 48 states,* crossed the country three times. Compared to his present team, 1940's was "amateur," says Taft. The chain of command runs down through a top staff to Republican national committeemen, state chairmen, county chairmen, precinct workers. There is a Taft organization in every state, a Taft man on the job in almost every county...
Metropolitan District committeemen yesterday turned down a petition by Charles L. Patrone urging that the Committee purchase the Boston Arena "for use of sporting and other events by cities and towns in the metropolitan district...
...after years of embarrassing deficits, President James B. Conant appointed a committee of educators and alumni to consider whether the sinking school could be salvaged. Two years later, the committeemen turned in their report. The recommendation: retain and strengthen the Divinity School. Harvard, the report argued, needed to become once more a "strong center of religious learning," capable of making its influence felt both in the U.S. ministry and throughout the university itself...
Boston School Committeemen discussed the purchase of the Boston Arena at their first meeting of the new year last night. In another development, the hearing before the committee on Metropolitan Affairs on purchase plans being made by the Metropolitan District Commission was not held as acheduled...