Word: fund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday 13,000 members of the University, including officers, teachers, students, and employees received pledges for the Community Fund Campaign. Officials of the drive served notice that there would be no administrative pressure in the canvassing...
...first time in recent years, Harvard is to be canvassed by an outside charity organization. The change in Student Council policy which is permitting the Greater Boston Community Fund to appeal with official blessing directly to the University's 13,000 officers, teachers, students, and employees is an indication of the new era of town and gown relationships...
Particularly appropriate is the time Harvard has agreed to include itself--for the purposes of the Fund--as one of the classifications of population of Greater Boston, because this year for the first time the Community Federations of Boston and Cambridge are combining their appeals. The University is organized for the solicitation of all its members; the Student Council has already donated six hundred dollars; the way is now clear for the University as a whole to recognize in a severely practical way its social responsibility...
...clause in Mr. Cobb's will establishing the Fund, referred to Professor Washburn as a "learned and greatly beloved professor, who rendered eminent services to the School by long years of devotion to its interests. By his method of instruction, noble character and ever-friendly encouragement, he was an inspiration to his students to a remarkable degree, and, though half a century and more has passed since then, yet his memory is still treasured in a affection by those once members of his classes who still survive...
With Dean James M. Land is of the Law School in Washington, other Law faculty members were reluctant to comment on the possible uses of the income of the new Washburn Fund, but possibilities suggested included the maintenance of the library, additional scholarships for needy students, or the endowment of a new Faculty chair...