Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prices for construction, for faculty pay, for expansion and attendant expenditures have mounted steadily and rapidly since World War II. Even so richly endowed a university as Harvard has been forced to launch far-reaching and comprehensive fund-raising campaigns...
Graduating seniors will discover in the immediate future that the fellowship of educated men, like any good society, demands a constant and continuing obligation. In a letter shortly to be received by all members of the Class of 1957, John S. Tomajan '14, outgoging chairman of the Harvard Fund Council, stresses the College's dependence on "the practiced loyalty" of all alumni for financial support...
...letter Tomajan lists '57's Class Agents, who will shortly begin the job of asking all their classmates to contribute to the Fund. The agents are James A. Bailey, Henry C. Holmes, William H. Joseph, and Brand J. Topjian...
David McCord, executive secretary of the Fund Council, yesterday emphasized the need for continuing support even after the 25th Reunion, especially in view of the fact that alumni are in their peak earning years between the 25th and 40th reunions...
...pampered; the dining-room help is incompetent; advertising men (speechwise, they are horrifying) are closing in; the club deficit mounts; free enterprise must sometimes be disguised with a sort of private welfare statism, as when the critical caddie shortage is solved by establishing the Caddies' Revolving Incentive Fund. And the rapacious golf pro, who year after year keeps promising his customers that their game will improve, is in a sense the guardian of the American dream. At Happy Knoll, a bit of snobbism is not only the opium of the Mrs. but the Miltown of both sexes ("How many...