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...changing of its name from the "Combined Charities Drive" to the "Harvard Charities and Service Fund Drive" in order to make it more palatable to students who had objected last year to the Council getting a cut from a "charities" campaign--the Council, approved the nomination of Jerome P. Gavin '50 as chairman of the fall drive and George J. Feeney '50 as treasurer...
...Gavin emphasized last night that students could allocate their money next fall, in any amount to any or all of the "student" or "national" charities, and that, unless they specified to the contrary, 20 percent of these donations would be paid into the Council administrative fund. Unallocated money will be allocated, it is expected, mainly to charities which fared badly...
Other railroaders call Budd "the presidents' president" because such big wheels as the Rock Island's President John Farrington, Santa Fe's President Fred Gurley and the Great Northern's President Frank Gavin are Budd-trained men. Soon a protegé will succeed him. Next August, Ralph Budd will be 70 - and the Burlington has an inflexible rule that its men must retire at that age. Budd has no intention of breaking the rule: he made...
They are Jerome Patrick Gavin '50 of Adams House and Los Angeles, who won the undergraduate first prize of $500; Carl Ray Woodring 3G of Cambridge and Edward Hoagland Brown '41 3L of Cambridge and Deal, New Jersey, who split the graduate award and gleaned $300 apiece...
...Gavin's dissertation was titled "This Bright Red Flower: A Critical Discussion of the Stories of Katherine Mansfield." Woodring wrote on "William and Mary Howitt: An Essay on Fame," while Brown discussed "Law in the India of Sir William Jones: A Starting Point for the English Historical School of Jurisprudence...