Word: mail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field of alumni fund raising it would at first seem that there has been no revolution at all. "GIVE!", the eternal imperative, still monopolizes the alumnus's incoming mail, especially as Reunion time draws near. The class of '31's 25th Reunion Bugle, published last December, failed to strike any radically new notes either in its headlines ("GIVE TO CLASS FUND NOW," "TAX ADVANTAGE IF GIFTS MADE BEFORE DEC. 31") or in the news story below ("The Class of 1931 has got to do some hustling between now and June...
...remote Harvard Club in regard to the screening of a prospective freshman. Critical standards are likely to vary with the miles, the years, and the enthusiasm of the interviewing alumnus, so that an applicant highly recommended in Spokane, Washington may get turned down in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A flustered air mail correspondence often results...
...Dunster faced attempts to purge the Yard of "antipaedobaptism." Leverett in 1717 was threatened for his "secularism." Eliot in 1885 encountered an organized alumni campaign to block the free elective system. Lowell in 1916 was attacked for the presence on the Faculty of pro-German professors. Conant's mail was constantly enlivened by letters such as that received in 1935 from Alexander Lincoln, Jr. '32, who pointed out that "My Class this year celebrated its fortieth anniversary and an overwhelming majority of its members...are utterly opposed to the New Deal and all its work." Lincoln then drew the logical...
POSTAL-RATE INCREASE will probably be put off for at least another year. Though House Post Office committee has approved a $432 million rate hike (to 4? first class, 7? air mail), chances are slim that Congress, with many members facing reelection, will pass the Administration-backed measure...
...quick action was solid evidence that the mood of Congress has changed since President Eisenhower vetoed the first farm bill last month. Prodded by mail from home, Congressmen have been seeking the quickest approach to a bill the President will sign. The Senate bill, which has the qualified approval of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, contains many of the provisions the President had hoped for when his veto sent Congress back for another try. However, it fails him on some points, e.g., although it would create a $1.2 billion soil bank, it would not provide any payments this year...