Word: harvard
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Adlai E. Stevenson remains the Harvard Democrat's favorite choice for the presidential candidacy in 1960, according to a straw vote of the HYDC membership last week...
...gift of 100 pounds to Harvard in 1643, the largest the College had received up to that time, was directly solicited by John Weld, from Roxbury. Weld persuaded Ann Radcliffe, who never saw America, both to set up a trust fund, the income of which was to be used solely for scholarship purposes, and to name his son, a Junior in the College, first recipient of the award...
...with academic tradition," was the way Abbott Lawrence Lowell described his 24 years as president of the University. But in those years, from May 1909 to May 1933, Lowell probably did more to determine the character of the College than any other president in Harvard's history...
...began the present program of concentration and distribution, tutorial, and general examinations. He fought for the House system and the construction of the first seven Houses. He championed the British tradition of College Fellows until the University was convinced of its merit, and then, when the plan for Harvard House Fellows languished for lack of money, quietly supplied $1.5 million of his own to endow the program permanently...
...First World War, the roaring twenties, and the slump of the Depression, he stepped up such a building campaign that the College was never without a corps of plumbers, plasterers, and heavy construction workers. Significantly, more University buildings were erected during his administration than in all of Harvard's previous history...