Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most thoughtful present I ever got" said one Harvard grad "was some sonnets a Wellesley girl wrote me and illuminated on parchment." This statement is another version of the old line that the thought behind the gift is most important; that this form of reasoning still prevails is evidenced by local sales of soup tourines, rare prints, and several copies of the US camera annual...
...fund was established to the memory of John W. and Belinda Randall "to benefit the poor of Cambridge." Thus, every year at Christmas and Thanksgiving, the Social Services Committee is obliged, and quite happy, to delve into what Duhig refers to as "part of the Harvard $177,000,000," for their biggest entertaining tasks of the year...
...football poll you conducted was not a fair statement of alternatives. I do not think that present policy considers scholarships an inducement to good high school students, or a reward for high grades at college. Scholarships are intended to put into practical terms what Harvard considers the proper qualifications for admissions and Deans List; if students can support themselves they are not eligible for scholarships no matter how good their record. This is a bold attempt to eliminate the economic factor privately in higher education, and represents perhaps the most liberal scholarship philosophy of any university...
...consider a successful football team superfluous for Harvard. It is a requirement of dignity and competence to do well what we undertake to do in whatever department. If the Admissions Office wants to weigh football ability more heavily, or the Dean's Office equate so many hours of practice with a B or an A, there will then be a larger number of football players eligible for scholarships. But the phrasing of the questions in your poll leaves no alternatives besides letting down the football team and sacrificing the integrity of the scholarship programme. Wolfgang Hallo...
...Harvard World Chapter called the meeting to form a nucleus of graduate students interested in federalism...