Word: localism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...metropolis like New York or Boston, where thousands of students apply for admission and thousands of alumni are concentrated in a small area, a network of committees constantly in contact with Harvard performs the University's local work. In rural areas, high school students apply on their own initiative and the quiet alumnus can remain happily off the fundraisers annual rounds if he wants...
...Rochester may be in for some big-name visitors indeed, names like Bok and Rosovsky. Peter F. Clifton '49, executive director of the Harvard College Fund, says Harvard's $250 million, five-year capital campaign is tentatively scheduled to "kick off" in Rochester then, with a big dinner for local alumni and top brass from the University...
...admissions and scholarship work is serious business, but for most people, Harvard Clubs primarily mean cocktail parties. Rochester has no separate building for its Harvard Club like the New York City club's luxurious midtown quarters, so its alumni use prestigious local clubs like the Genesee Valley Club for their functions. The Harvard Club sponsors a getaway picnic," a freshman upperclassmen party, a Christmas luncheon, and a winter outing each year...
...adds that graduates of the College tend to be more active and interested in Harvard's local affairs than graduate school alumni...
...Each local Harvard club has a character determined by the people most active in it. William D. Rice '56, a Rochester businessman, tells of his visit to the Harvard Club of Buffalo, N.Y. "Buffalo is supposed to be friendly, and Rochester, people say, is stuffy," he says, but when he walked into a Buffalo party no one spoke to him for 45 minutes. Finally he approached the one friendly-looking face in the crowd, but it turned out to belong to a visiting Princeton alumnus...