Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would make the same statement with even more vigor today, for in our generation the difficulties of financing higher education have increased substantially. Twenty-five years ago income from that part of Harvard's endowment fund which belongs to the College met 47 per cent of the cost of operating the College. Last year this income met less than 27 per cent of these costs. Though the amount of endowment has considerably increased and the income from it has doubled in twenty-five years, the significant fact is that during this period the costs of operating the College have quadrupled...
President Pusey has called upon Harvard alumni to support the most ambitious fund-raising campaign ever to be carried on by Harvard College, or, for that matter, by any educational institution in the world...
...result of their joint efforts, the clubs have sold over 600 silver shoes at $1.00 apiece, helped in the student drive that raised $2,100 in downtown Boston on Dollars for Democrats Day, provided workers for the Cambridge fund-raising effort in which $3,500 was collected, and are at present working in 12 Cambridge precincts urging Democratic voters to go to the polls. Plans for meeting Adlai Stevenson, when he arrives in Boston October 28, have not yet been completely worked out. Final election day organization is not yet completely crystallized either, but present plans call...
Villanova's director of athletics, Ambrose F. Dudley, proposed Saturday that each college donate an equal proportion of one game's gate receipts to the Olympic Fund...
Closeted with Republican fund raisers, Ike offered some confident advice: "If I had the task of organizing and raising money ... I would say, 'How much happier are you than you were four years ago?' " Then he hurried to the Hunt Armory for his speech, marched into an arena where 10,000 had filled all seats; half as many more were waiting to listen from outside. Introduced by Pennsylvania's campaigning U.S. Senator Jim Duff (see below), "Mamie Eisenhower's husband" apologized that Mamie was kept in Washington by a cold, proceeded to lash Democratic "partisan oratory...