Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When President Conant commented on the growth of the University's endowment fund for athletics in his address to the Varsity Club last Friday night he extended and developed the line of thought that has dominated the athletic program for the past few years. For in 1935, when it became apparent how far the H.A.A. had gone off the gold standard since the flush days of the Republican era of the twenties, drastic cuts in the athletic budget made it clear that sooner or later the University would have to shoulder the responsibility for its athletic program, as well...
...that the endowment fund has grown to a figure approaching $200,000 through moneys set aside for the purpose by the Corporation and also through private contributions, the athletic fund stands side by side with the other important contributions of the Conant regime, namely the National scholarships and the University professorships. For as these funds are designed to bolster the professorial and undergraduate ranks to their utmost efficiency in the strictly academic branches of the University, so the endowment fund for athletics must be aimed at giving "the same basis of security" to athletics "as the instruction and research carried...
...Harvard sports endowment fund has reached a total of $167,000 and will be increased by $25,000 as soon as the bequest of Thomas W. Slocum '90 is received, President Conant announced last night at the Varsity Club Dinner...
...endowment fund in its present state is," he said, "only a beginning, but we have hopes that it will grow through the years...
With only a few minutes to play, Harvard had capitalized on two breaks to put the ball on the Dartmouth six-yard, line. At that time a third string quarterback was directing the team, and desperately searched through his fund of football lore to see how he could stage off the impending catastrophe. Then he remembered a quarterback's meeting in which he had posed the following question to Blaik...