Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard Student Agencies representatives have been laying the groundwork for a $50,000 fund-raising drive to start a capital risk fund program, Dustin M. Burke '52, HSA board chairman, said yesterday...
...fund, Burke explained, will provide capital "for projects which would be extremely valuable, but which might need financial backing for several years before they became profitable." With support from a capital risk fund, HSA could try to convince outside industries to use services which Harvard students could provide...
Among the projects which the capital risk fund will support is HSA's Information Gathering Service. Since 1962, the 'IGS has done interviewing, research, and translating for business and industry outside the University...
With the help of the capital risk fund program, Burke said, the IGS might be able to offer up to $25,000 in student research jobs per year. The translating service alone, Burke said, could expand into a $10,000 per year service. "All that is needed is an agressive publicity campaign in outside industry," Burke said...
City Manager Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, completely rejected the possibility of all-night crosswalk crews. "I'm not going to risk a couple of men to people coming back from a party." DeGuglielmo said. "They can't even see the street, much less the crews...