Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most representatives' desire to go to supper as quickly as possible, the Council heard first from Greg Stone '58, chairman of Combined Charities. He said that he had looked into the best means of distributing the Harvard gift, and on the basis of his efficiency as an "expert" at fund raising, had chosen World University Service. Accordingly, and with no authorization, Stone had invited a New York representative of WUS who would explain how his organization would spend the money. The WUS man reported that all of the University's donation, along with gifts from several other American colleges, would...
...this point, Stone made his immortal statement: "I won't do it (the drive) if I'm told what to do with my money." The Council raised its lethargic head as Merom Brachman '58 fired back that Stone's Combined Charities was merely the fund-gathering arm of the Council, and therefore the decision about how the money should be spent was the Council's to make. Summoning courage, Edward M. Abrahamson '57, Council president, pronounced, "You are both right and equally right." The Council now moved on to the next point, though no one noticed particularly what...
Such lectureships do not require a million-dollar endowment fund as they last for only a year and, thus, can come from annual donations. The visiting lecturer should stay at one of the Houses, coming in close contact with the students there while strengthening the House structure. As an appointee for one year, the artist would not be required to divert his energies into scholarship. Both he and the student might well find the experience more than "(you may say) satisfactory...
...wondered if going to Melbourne could have any sense. We are sportsmen, but we are not soft in the head, are we?'' The Netherlands' Olympic Committee answered that question by withdrawing from the games, donating 100,000 guilder?, ($26,000) of its Olympic fund to Hungarian war relief...
...Manhattan last week. Producer DeMille made a dramatic announcement: he will turn over all his own profits from the movie "for all time" to a special trust fund to be set up for "charitable, religious and educational purposes." Said he before a civic luncheon audience: "I believe deeply that the Ten Commandments given on Mount Sinai are not laws. They are the law . . . They are the charter and guide of human liberty . . . The struggle between the forces represented by Moses and those represented by Pharaoh is still being waged today. Are men free souls under God or are they...