Word: fund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watch their institutions catapult to fame behind the artillery of big time football brigades. President Conant has declared his contempt for "professional teams maneuvering behind collegiate banners", and has proposed an endowment policy to rid Harvard's sports of their dependence on gate receipts. But unfortunately an endowment fund large enough to handle the A.A.A. annual $400,000 budget seems pitifully remote. Mean-while Harvard is at the mercy of other colleges whose standards may vary with the wind...
Official spokesmen for the College were explicit in stating that no campaigning was contemplated in keeping the 300th Fund alive, merely hoping that the momentum of the September Celebration would carry...
...general Alumni Committee, headed by George Peabody Gardner, Jr. '10, will discontinue its activities. The work of keeing the Fund alive will be done by a committee not yet named, and an office in New York will be opened under the charge of David M. Little '18, assistant director of the Tercentenary, and Francis M. Bladgen...
...purposes of the 300th Fund are to gain money for the University Professorships and for the National Scholarships originated by President Conant. Thus far a total of $5,514,192.96 has been donated under this Fund but of this $2,000,000 was for the Littauer School of Public Administration. The need for Unrestricted money is felt to be still a pressing one by University Hall, and it is hoped through the continuation of this Fund to keep up the interest of the graduates in progress of National Scholarships and University Professorships...
...relationship between the Harvard Fund and the 300th Anniversity Fund has not yet been straightened out. Until December 31, 1936 all unrestricted gifts will be credited to the Tercentenary Fund. No information could be secured as to whether or not this practice will continue next year...