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...Class of 1930 gave a check for $285,000 to the President and Fellows of Harvard College. It is a sizable amount, representing 25 years of fund-raising efforts in that particular class. And yet it is not an unusually large sum; indeed, in the immediate future, each 25th Reunion class will probably give the College no less an amount, and very likely a little more...
...natural that the 25th reunion found should become the backbone of the annual alumni drive, since by 1925 each twenty-five-year class was giving $150,000 to the College. The custom of giving such a large lump sum began officially in 1906 when the Class of 1881 totalled $117,000. An unofficial move in that direction was made two years earlier, however, when the Class of 1879 raised almost $100,000 for the construction of a new football stadium. The following year, the Class of 1880 achieved about the same amount and designated it for specific purposes...
...past two years a steady stream of Asian women and children, mostly Indians seeking reunion with husbands and parents, has poured into South Africa to join the 360,000 Asians already there. Last week the flow reached flood proportions, then stopped as suddenly as the flow of water from a reservoir when the sluice gates are closed. In late 1953 South Africa passed a law barring all future immigration of Asians into white-supremist South Africa. On the night before the law went into effect last week, the airports were jammed with last-minute arrivals. A party of 150 Asians...
Cited by Western Reserve for his "integrity, devotion to duty, and his understanding of the student and the faculty mind, Buck became Dean of the Faculty in 1942 and was made Provost in 1945. His book, "Road to Reunion" won the Pulitzer Prize for history...
After two years of army duty, Alexis comes home to London and finds Rose ensconced as his uncle's mistress. Alexis coaxes her into a bedroom reunion, but at this point and over the next decade, the plot begins subdividing like an amoeba: 1) Rose takes up with a 20-year-old named Vincent; 2) Sir George dies; 3) Alexis and another of Uncle George's girl friends, an Italian contessa, get high at his funeral and land flat in some French hay; 4) Rose's and Uncle George's daughter Jenny, by now a remarkably...