Word: institutionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alumni. "Most colleges are at their wits' end to find something, aside from financial support, which can worthily occupy the time and energy of intelligent alumni. To put it harshly, the support and good will of the alumni may not in itself mean much to an institution, but its...
The goal will be to recruit a student body not markedly distinguishable at entrance from those of first-rate colleges. Inevitably, the fact that New College is a new kind of institution will tend to attract, during the first years, students to whom pioneering makes an appeal. That will be...
White entered the field of investment counseling with a firm in Boston after completing his studies at the University. Presently, he is senior partner with Scudder, Stevens & Clark, a director of the Wall Street Journal, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and a trustee of Norwich University in Vermont.
According to a random survey conducted by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, 52.9 per cent of scholars polled picked their institution "because it was a good college." Eighteen per cent selected a college." Close to home," and 16.5 per cent chose one "recommended by friends."
Terrence P. Curier '57-2, speaking in support of the study, criticized what he called "the feminizing of a masculine institution." He requested that the committee study not only the day-to-day problems of Harvard-Radcliffe relations, but also the whole question of co-education at the University.