Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raise these doubts this afternoon, gentlemen, in order to solicit your support in holding the balance even between the practical and immediate on the one hand and the fundamental and enduring on the other. For it is from ardent friends of the university that many of the demands arise that seem to me to threaten the long-term contributions of the Harvard company of scholars. We need have no fear that in these days we shall be too little concerned with the urgent problems of the moment. The pressures are all in one direction. There force, when the alumni meet...
Perhaps all these small problems are merely part of one big one decentralization of the University and the rise of autonomous House units. A few men think that House loyalty should stand before college ties and even advance the thesis that Harvard should follow the English tradition and solicit separate endowments. (although Cambridge and Oxford are now getting gifts to the University) Most agree that furthering this trend would break up the college. Hence the strife over what records to field in the houses. Parsons reassuringly adds since faculty interest centers on graduate research, this trend...
...individual or outside organization is allowed to solicit within the University except the Student Council during its annual drive," Watson said...
...that the Law School's Voluntary Defenders would defend any of those arrested Thursday who need legal aid. Actually, the Voluntary Defenders was established solely to provide legal aid for indigent persons accused of crime. Although the group has accepted the cases of some students, it definitely does not solicit clients or handle the case of anyone who can afford legal counsel...
Chase indicated that a more definite effort would be made to solicit funds from alumni than has been made previously and that he would probably head an unofficial undergraduate committee. A drive opened in the spring of 1950 has reached only a $21,000 total so far, with the January, 1951 gift of $20,000 by Bright providing the lion's share...