Word: funds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Magenta under that bravest of all battle flags, the one that reads Vol. 1. Issue 1. Early readers who had just descended from their mustache cups to their poached eggs that January morning in '73 learned in the next eleven lines of clipped prose that the Kirkland Fellowship fund had reached the level...
...next year the Hon. George Bancroft, donor of the fellowship, who was otherwise famed both as the man who ordered the invasion of Mexico and as a historian of some note, completed his donation to bring the sum of the fund to more than...
...recall the details now, but the central issue was that Harvard was paying a certain group of scrubwomen less than the state minimum wage for women workers. A group of alumni, headed by Corliss Lamont if I recall correctly, took the initiative in publicizing the case and raised a fund to make restitution to the women concerned. I had to write an editorial defining the CRIMSON's stand on this gesture of the alumni group. The theme of the editorial was "a plague on both your houses:" Harvard had followed a foolish and niggardly policy, but the alumni should have...
...their assiduous devotion to internal improvement, the editors permitted the building to deteriorate unnoticed for the next twenty years, until by 1946 it had become a menace to safety as well as comfort and efficiency. Abandoning their former expedient of moving to new grounds, a building fund was raised and during the past summer the entire building was renovated in modern style...
Chairman, recent Crimson building fund campaign; lawyer -- Simpson, Thatcher, and Bartlett...