Word: funds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fast enough to play halfback. Notre Dame's line, the toughest in football, won two places-Guard John Mastrangelo and Tackle George Connor. Army contributed (besides Tucker, Blanchard & Davis) a 200-lb. end, Hank Foldberg. Georgia Tech, which 18 years ago had an All-America center, "Peter" Fund, had another in Paul Duke. The beefiest man on this season's All-America is Tennessee's 230-lb. tackle, Dick Huffman...
...greatest frequency, is that of fundraising. Individually, alumni of the University have endowed Harvard with a great percentage of the 200 million dollars that form the capital backbone of the institution. But where these individual gifts come as a matter of individual, unorganized devotion, a large segment of the funds of the University are channeled through the Harvard Fund, a thoroughly organized structure encouraging alumni support. The fund has as its chief interest the subscription of unrestricted funds for use by the University wherever current needs seem to call for it. Over 31,000 alumni have contributed about three million...
...They began to fine miners $1-$2 a day for every day they stayed out. Fines, retroactive to Nov. 21, could be deducted from miners' pay when they finally went back. The fact that fines will be turned over to the United Mine Workers' medical and hospital fund would not soften the resentment of individual, hungry miners. Nor would it get them back to work...
...colleges have represented on their faculties such outstanding men of letters as Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and W. H. Auden, while Harvard undergraduates must get along on a starvation diet of composition courses and depend for the inspiration and advice such men could offer on the Morris Gray Fund guest lectures. Although it would be possible for Harvard to obtain one or more men of the calibre of Auden or Tate, the University's blindness to the invaluable services which such men could render has made Harvard not a center of creative effort in America, but a whistle stop...
Appealing again this year for Harvard support in the annual National Tuberculosis Association's Christmas Seal fund raising drive, Miss Mabel M. Brown, executive secretary of the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association, has announced that by the end of the week approximately 10,000 appeal any lopes will have been mailed to students in the university. Each envelope contains 100 Christmas Seals and a request for a $1.00 contribution...