Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down from the ivory tower of the Harvard Advocate has issued a critique of the college's athletic difficulties that clarions the need for a permanent endowment policy. It is true that Harvard has climbed few of the stairs leading toward the goal of an endowment fund large enough to divorce the sports program from dependence on gate receipts. If minor sports are permanently to be retained, and if a successful intra-mural program is to be developed, President Conant must propagate with all his energies the endowment ideal among the alumni, and it is to be hoped that...
Prizes will be awarded on the basis of yearly examinations for students and the general public, and will be known as the William H. Bliss Awards in American History. Mrs. Charles Warren, of Washington, D. C., has established a fund in memory of her father which will cover all expenses of the plan for five years...
...conclude I should like to praise two contributions by John Day which fall somewhat outside the unity I have attempted to see in this issue. One is a review of "The Late George Apley", the other a well-buttressed sensible plea for the creation of an athletic endowment fund at Harvard. If undergraduate criticism of academic administration were always as judicious as this last, it might become an instrument of real service to the University...
...entire cost of the proposed improvement will be met by appropriation from the state highway fund, and there will be no cost to Cambridge...
...today a dwindling group of oldsters, heroes as near forgotten as any in U. S. history. So lightly held are they in the land to which they have given their lives and whose civil servants they have been for a generation, that recently the First Commonwealth Assembly, pressed for funds, voted to liquidate the Philippine Bureau of Education's teachers pension fund. This meant that the Thomasites would not get the retirement pensions toward which they had been contributing 3% of their meagre salaries (ranging from $900 to $1,500) for 35 years...