Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original formation of the Harvard Clubs was to provide a common meeting ground for alumni. In fulfilling such a purpose, the clubs have often become important centers of recruiting applicants, publicizing the University, and focusing alumni interest. In actual practice the clubs are usually local alumni associations where interested graduates may come together to meet others with similar experiences, and to center their Harvard activities...
...Club is ideally not just a social club. Any group of men who happened to be Harvard graduates could quite justifiably organize their own club, but the society should not have the name "Harvard Club." If a club takes the name which identifies it with the interests of all local alumni, every graduate should be allowed to join if he wishes...
Groups growing up in other colleges will be completely independent. "Harvard, in this case, in merely the sparkplug, giving the idea to other schools," Richardson stated. The local organization may, however, keep track of the number of signatures solicited nationally...
Boston and Cambridge hotels are already booked to capacity, but Phillips Brooks House listings showed there were still 15 openings in local boarding houses for students wishing to accommodate their dates...
...Faculty Committee on Student Activities has adopted a regulation of student film showing that is no regulation at all. In the future, undergraduate organizations are not to show movies in the University's tax-free buildings to make profits. To do so not only would bring suits from local movie houses against unfair competition the students' use of educational facilities to avoid overhead expenses but such abuse of the University's educational privilege threatens its tax-free status. Secondarily, student groups are supposed to be formed for cultural purposes, not to make money in film showing...