Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in recent years, Harvard is to be canvassed by an outside charity organization. The change in Student Council policy which is permitting the Greater Boston Community Fund to appeal with official blessing directly to the University's 13,000 officers, teachers, students, and employees is an indication of the new era of town and gown relationships...
...include itself--for the purposes of the Fund--as one of the classifications of population of Greater Boston, because this year for the first time the Community Federations of Boston and Cambridge are combining their appeals. The University is organized for the solicitation of all its members; the Student Council has already donated six hundred dollars; the way is now clear for the University as a whole to recognize in a severely practical way its social responsibility...
Through the Dean's office there is constant contact with the hundreds of schools that annually send men here for their Freshman year. This winter Dean Gummere is visiting some of these schools in the South and Middle West, interviewing prospective candidates. While a student is here, the Records office sends back reports on his progress. In this way Harvard standards are carried to the schools, influence those schools...
...further provides for a gradual increase in this Old Age Insurance Tax to six percent by 1948. To meet these payments fraternities will be forced eventually to cut down on either wages or jobs, hurting those who most need financial help. Thus is higher education encouraged...." --The Amherst Student...
...used to be in the way of three parts fun to one part work. If true, it is fortunate for the future of education here that his ancient inordinate proportion has been broken down. The "fun" is a consideration necessary only in such a degree as to give a student proper mental and physical balance. But the President saw more than "fun" in extracurricular activity. He is evidently aware of the possible value of such work not only for the student's life but for the student's education as well. Sports, too, can be an education as well...