Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Previous to September, 1926, the undergraduate body was annually harassed and solicited by various drives for philanthropic purposes which reaped a considerable but unevenly distributed harvest from the charitable. The Budget plan, introduced two years ago by the Finance Committee of the Student Council, centralized the collection and expenditure of money by undergraduates. The Class Funds, collections, church drives and eleemosynary canvasses were eliminated entirely and one initial request for a $ 5.00 subscription substituted. A similar method had already been adopted and successfully practiced at Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth...
...quota of $12,000 to cover its expenditures, has clearly demonstrated its superiority over former methods. Hitherto, the quota has already been more than half collected at the conclusion of the registration period. The remainder is usually added by the last of November. Checks are made payable to the Student Council and should be sent this year, to Phillips Brooks House...
...Committee appointed by De Normandie, the Student Council representative in charge of the Budget, consists of W. McK. Dunn '30, H. H. Holbrook '30, Kendrick Kerns '30, James Roosevelt '30, and R. F. W. Smith '30. These men were posted in Memorial Hall during registration to receive subscriptions or accept pledge cards for the Budget...
...This method will eliminate to some extent the too great proportion of 'grinds' in the Phi Bete, and replace them by men who are capable of thinking as well as of 'grinding.' It will thus increase the prestige of the society and in this way further scholarship among the student body...
Engaged. Warren Straton, 20, Manhattan Beaux Arts sculpture student, son of Dr. John Roach Straton; to one Ruth Cater of Douglaston, Queens County...