Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students had swiped it, later raffled it off in Durham through the sale of some 2,000 tickets at threepence apiece. Exulted one of the thieves: "For once, the Dean's name will be used to aid a worthy cause." The raffle proceeds were turned over to a fund for Hungarian relief...
When Harvard's President Nathan Marsh Pusey announced the launching of one of the most ambitious fund-raising campaigns ($75 million to $100 million for the undergraduate college alone) in educational history, he knew that he would have to answer one inevitable question: Why does Harvard, with the biggest university endowment in the U.S., need so much new money? Pusey's reply, which is now going out to alumni, is more than just a plea for Harvard. It is a dramatic description of the ever-expanding needs and challenges of U.S. higher education...
...colony" has been informally discussed in a meeting of the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy. It met first with interested and cheerful enthusiasm, the official said, but discussion of the idea for a new institution has been dropped because the University is now primarily concerned with its mammoth fund drive...
...agreed to resign if the Council did not go along with his wishes, and more important, displayed that he had little actual concern for the welfare of Hungarian citizens--which the UN as well as WUS of course, has. To Council members about to vote on the matter, his fund-collecting agency rightly seemed to be the only efficient way of assembling a Harvard gift...
...showed that a principled minority, led by Brachman, Theodore D. Moskowitz '58 and Larry Johnson '57, had been over-ridden by Stone forces, 8 to 7. President Abramson now gave a little speech in which he observed how wise the Council had been under duress, and that the fund was completely apolitical in nature. As a flurry of coats and men made for the door on adjournment, Al Hofeld '58, who had said nothing during the proceedings, rose and smiled an enigmatic little smile...