Word: group
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...universities, the coaching is done largely by undergraduates. There are certain exceptions: in rowing, for instance, a former Blue often guides the first boat through the final stages of its preparation for the inter-college races, and the dons occasionally lend a hand in coaching this or that athletic group. But in the selection and management of all college teams the captain's authority is final, and the bulk of the coaching is done by the more experienced men under the direction of the captain. I have heard participants in several sports complain of haphazard organization and scanty training...
Some time in 1927, a certain individual who preferred to be known to the world at large as "Anonymous Alumnus" (it is rumored that Mr. Bingham and a certain select group really do know who this gentleman is) offered the Harvard Athletic Association $350,000 for an athletic building with the proviso that the University raise the rest of the funds necessary for its completion. In December, 1927, an "Alumnus Aquaticus" placed $100,000 in trust for a "swimmery" primarily for Harvard undergraduates. No less than two months later one "Anonymous Aquaticus" put the sum of $250,000 in trust...
Much building is in evidence in the neighborhood of the Yale School of Medicine and the New Haven Hospital as a result of the progress made in the development of the Human Welfare Group. The financial program of the group at its formation in February called for $15, 500,000, of which $6,000,000 remains to be obtained. One of the units, the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Pavilion for Children, will be ready for occupancy about Christmas time. Construction on the $2,000,000 laboratory and clinic adjoining it on the hospital grounds has been started. Plans for the Institute...
...from the new Sterling Library, which is now nearly finished, to plans for the housing of about 1,000 undergraduates who are at present but poorly accommodated. While not entering upon the so-called House Plan, as developed at Harvard, still Yale in its new Human Welfare Group is starting an educational and social experiment which may prove to have just as wide reaching effects...
Other special features will include a singing group known as the "Three Trees". Robert Morris in a vocal feature, and Scott Burbank in a xylophone solo. A novelty of Roy Lamson's, the University Five will play selections of particularly peppy syncopated selections...