Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ordinary University fund solicitation will be subordinated to President Pusey's Program for Harvard College, beginning next September, James R. Reynolds '23, assistant to the President, announced yesterday...
...Harvard Fund, which conducts a continual appeal for unrestricted funds, will sharply curtail its requests after August 31, 1957, he said, so that most available resources will be channeled into the Program. The Fund will resume regular solicitation after July 1, 1958, while the Program enters its final "mopping-up" stages...
...program sponsored by the Morris Gray Poetry Fund, Frost spoke at random about conversation ("My education") and metaphors ("My kind of foolin'"), and what science attempts to prove ("How she differs from what she's like...
...inexorable wisdom of State Street and the Yard, however, the colony idea has been peremanently tabled, no doubt as an extreme breach of propriety. Meanwhile another proposal has been made to the University which should gain much more serious consideration. Sponsored by the Fund for the Advancement of Education, this more plausible suggestion would found a new regional college from the regular faculties of several existing institutions, ranging in size and and character from a small women's college to universities like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. The purpose of the plan would be to experiment with new educational ideas...
Aside from developing flexible concepts of financing, the college could serve as a laboratory for testing new educational ideas. The lecture system of large universities could be deemphasized to counter what the Fund sees as a common tendency for students to wait for "canned" learning rather than to pursue their own educations. The faculty, except for a small core of permanent members, would be largely on temporary leave from the parent insitutions, enabling both students and professors to benefit from a constant exposure to new ways of thinking and teaching...