Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prospect of a real golf course for Harvard men becomes more and more imminent. With the undergraduate campaign just launched, the Harvard Golf Association has made a strategic move. Wisely enough, the aim is not for a large sum but for a widespread contribution. It is out of the question to raise the full amount $150,000 or even a moderate portion of it, here in the University. What can be accomplished is to convince the alumni, on whom the burden must fall, that their larger contributions will not be made in vain. They must be made to realize...
...Legal Aid Bureau is open daily for the purpose of giving free legal advice to needy people and handles about 100 cases a year. Its office is at the Prospect Union, Central square, Cambridge...
...present no such prospect is in sight. Banks throughout the country have great amounts of loanable funds. They have far greater investments than ever before, and these could readily be converted into loanable funds. The Federal Reserve System has immense gold holdings which might form the basis of an almost unlimited amount of credit. If the present expansion of business were to go forward until halted by a shortage of credit we might well look forward to a very great business boom...
...oldest pictures of the University in existence, a print entitled "A Prospect of the Colleges in Cambridge in New England", carries a footnote lauding the zealousness of the students in striving for the public welfare. Perhaps the British engraver changed his opinion after the events of the last half of the century; but the interest of the Harvard undergraduates in public affairs kept on unabated...
...those regularly open to upper classmen are given at the same hour and, of course, conflict with some other in advanced Economics or higher Mathematics absolutely necessary to one's Concentration. The situation is worthy of a Briggs cartoon. "When a feller needs a friend." Yet such is the prospect more than one man found facing him when he tried to complete his schedule this fall,--and one more scholar went to swell the ranks of Music...