Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Council ranked third for its survey of religion at the University, which was reported in Newsweek last year. Larry R. Johnson '58 received the third-place certificate for Harvard, while Susan Olsen '58 accepted Radcliffe's second-prize certificate...
...more than this $2300 is paid, however, the Council will be operating on a "bare minimum," Johnson said. In this case many of the Council's usual projects, such as reports on College problems will have to be abandoned, although we could get by on $2200," Johnson admitted...
...pledges which the Council has collected so far, most have come from freshmen, Johnson added. Very few upperclass pledges have been paid, and the Council expects to send out letters reminding upperclass signers that they have promised money to the Council...
Upperclassmen also pledged less to the Council than did freshmen, although even the freshman contribution was not as great as expected. Johnson attributed underclass lack of contribution to the "extreme view" of last year's freshmen toward the strong-arm methods of solicitation employed by the Council last year...
Then new method of "soft-sell" persuasion was, Johnson admitted, "less successful for bringing in money," though it was "better in the long run" than the former manner. Contributors this year, the president felt, were students "who wanted to give, while in previous years, they have been "shamed into giving...