Word: fund
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hamlen '04, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Fund Council, left yesterday for the Middle and Far West, where he will visit various Harvard Clubs in the interest of the recently established Harvard Fund...
Last summer Mr. Hamlen, who since 1917 had been secretary to Eliot Wadsworth then Acting Chairman of the Executive Committee of the American Red Cross, was appointed Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Fund Council...
Meanwhile more than the quota for Third Liberty Bonds, which the Treasury had offered to buy from the public for its sinking fund, had been subscribed, and the Treasury decided to take some $120,000,000 worth instead of the $100,000,000 for which it had asked...
...elective system had its origin in the tremendous growth of knowledge in the last century. The fund of facts in an increasing number of fields finally became so great that the educators, completely overwhelmed by it, had to turn the task of selection over to green Freshmen, who were not qualified to make wise choices. This burden of knowledge which is threatening to crush education under its weight is analogous to the structural overloading of our civilization. Perhaps this increasing pressure of our civilization on itself, and the overloading of education by our civilization. Perhaps this increasing pressure...
Harvard's leadership must be insured. The Harvard Fund is ready to help insure it, and to divide the responsibility among...