Word: parted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...give years to the collection of the fund." Quite the contrary, the committee has given the $10,-000,000 Fund considerable publicity both in the newspapers and otherwise. This publicity has had the effect of prompting several very substanial gifts wholly unsolicited and many expressions of enthusiasm on the part of Harvard's friends. These facts lead to the belief that when actual soliciting is begun, as it will be very shortly, the response will be immediate and generous...
...spent on this undertaking was based on the fact that the activities of the Harvard Endowment Fund will not cease when the $10,000,000 is in hand. In that sense the Fund will extend over many years and, it is hoped, will ultimately become as permanent a part of the University as one of the departments of instruction. But although the committee realizes that it is beginning a work which will go on for generations, its first object is to raise $10,000,000, and that as speedily as possible...
With some 40,000 living Harvard men to reach, in addition to innumerable "outside" friends of the University, it would be impossible, and for many reasons, impracticable, to conduct a short quick campaign. If a substantial part of the desired sum is in hand by next Commencement, the committee will feel that a satisfactory start on the great task has been made. ROBERT F. DUNCAN '12, Secretary, Endowment Fund Committee...
...such attempts on the part of the officers of a university to restrict the freedom of speech or opinion on the part either of the members of the faculty or of speakers from the outside is based upon a misconception of the attitude of the students toward those who address them from the lecture platform. That attitude is almost invariably one of respect, mingled with doubt. No audience is quicker to perceive the untruth, the fallacy, or, on the other hand, the worth of an argument. Weight of academic authority counts for little to the university student who is accustomed...
...pounds overweight will be allowed in both the preliminaries and finals. Participants who have not done so already are to weigh in before the bouts, and wrestlers who are going to compete in the finals will weigh in again tomorrow before 3 o'clock. There are 29 men taking part in the boxing and about an equal number in the wrestling bouts...