Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hidden beneath the facade of Southern decadence lies the keynote of present-day secondary school education in the South: progress. Progress is the motto of the new South, and is now reflected in all aspects of Southern life. Everywhere the signs point upward...
Thus some parental influence is unavoidable; and in some communities it is the only factor which preserves any sort of decent education. But if parental interests do not co-operate with school and public interests, little progress is possible; and if they co-operate in the wrong way, a stultifying and authoritarian atmosphere may result...
...final results of this drive obviously cannot be foretold. The massive gifts ($3-5 million) do not seem to be coming through, and the recession is clearly not helping progress, but contributions seem to be moving along steadily, and next June, when the drive is scheduled for completion, should bring a cheerful result...
Variety's reviewer gushed: "If this program doesn't make former Harvard men shell out with moola for a much needed cause, nothing will." Well, the "friends" of the College have more than risen to the occasion. As of May 14, the date of the last progress report from General Chairman Alexander M. White '25, the Program had received over $39.2 million...
...same time it is urging those who have already given to increase their pledges. The result has been a great increase in the past two months of the number of alumni participating, accompanied by a slight decrease in average daily income. According to the Program's April Progress Report, it had received about $37.3 million, representing 9,003 gifts, an average of approximately $4,100 per gift. One month later, the total number of gifts to the Program had decreased to 13,455, with the average gift now slightly less than...