Word: fund
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Monday night at a council-sponsored meeting on E4D, representatives and a handful of seniors began setting up structures which they hope will give the fund the institutional foundation to carry it into the next century...
While Cook says that fundraising will be one of his priorities, he emphasizes that he he has no immediate plans to initiate a fund drive. The arboretum currently has an annual operating budget of $2.8 million--70 percent of which comes from its endowment--and depends for the remainder upon both public and private grants, income from education programs, membership fees and donations and revenues from the arboretum shop...
...only 20 percent of the budget of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Fortunately, Harvard places a higher priority on subsidizing the education of the student who cannot afford to attend this University or any other than on cleaning Mr. Yoo's "stinking bathroom." Like the Harvard-Radcliffe Fund, we agree that the familiar Marxist-Leninist maxim, "...each according to his ability, to each according to his needs," applies quite well to Harvard-Radlcliffe's admissions policy...
...money? Out of some sense of gratitude that I was allowed to spend my college years at Harvard. Harvard allowed its seniors "The emotional and intellectual growth they experienced, the lifelong friends they made, the horizons opened to them both in the classroom and outside," claims the Harvard-Radcliffe Fund. None of these things would have happened at other colleges, I suppose, especially those without the charming class gift agents swarming about for money, like bees on honey...
Harvard has, of course, anticipated this query. And the answer is: "The philosophy pursued by The Harvard-Radcliffe Fund may be summed up by an old maxim: each according to his ability, and to each according to his needs." I just wish I knew Harvard was out in the forefront of the Marxist Leninist movement before I came here. But I have to admit, I love the picture of 300 class agents, palms held upward, chasing their classmates about the Yard spouting communist doctrine...