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...mite expansive about his moneymaking prowess; he also gave the impression that he was related to former U.S. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey. He had a little printing press in his basement, and a friendly real-estate man who saw it once joshed: "You could make a bundle of ten-dollar bills on that machine." "Yes," laughed George, "that's right," and he hustled his visitor into another room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Publisher | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...success of any drive can only be determined by the final tabulation of statistics. And this year the Fund broke its previous high of $704,000 as a total of 18,585 graduates gave $807,412 for an average gift of $43.45. These figures represent a ten-dollar increase in average gift in two years, plus a record 41.7 percent of the total graduate body which gave in 1955. This performance raised the overall thirty-year figures, so that now 36,000 out of 44,000 graduates--82 percent--have given $8,000,000 to the College...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: 30 Years of Growth: The Harvard Fund | 3/7/1956 | See Source »

This marks the first year since just after World War II that the number of applicants has declined. Henry attributed the decrease to the new ten-dollar application fee, now required for the first time by the Big Three colleges. "There are fewer shoppers who apply to a great many places," he explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Henry Foresees Decrease In Class of '60 Applicants | 1/27/1956 | See Source »

Post-exam skiers, sun bathers and pub crawlers face a ten-dollar fine unless they revisit Cambridge on Wednesday afternoon, February 1, popularly known as Spring Registration Day. The Abbotts, Burbouns, and on through Misanthropes register in Memorial Hall from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.; Narbonnes through Zyzerskis, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.; and anybody can register from 4:00 p.m. until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Return Date | 1/25/1956 | See Source »

...slight variation of this procedure, Wilson suggests, would be to have the same set-up, but instead of a ten-dollar bill a table with all sorts of magazines on it. If the candidate picked up Harper's or the N. Y. Times Book Review, he was accepted. A choice of Playboy or Confidential would reject him, however...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Admissions: What Kind of Wheat to Winnow | 1/6/1956 | See Source »

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