Word: localize
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Nearly six-score business men in Boston, none of whom ever attended college, have aided the Harvard Endowment Fund to the extent of $128,000, or practically $1100 each, according to a recent statement issued by the local committee. A number of others have signified their intention of also contributing. The fund totals so far have been estimated as follows: Boston, $4,562,678; New York, $4,053,567; outside, $2,990,450; total...
...feel that University men will not feel reluctant to help owing to their service with other divisions. The Yankee Division was composed largely of New England men, and this is more or less a local project. But just as men and women interested in other divisions have helped the Yellow Cross Division Club in Chicago and the Seventy-seventh Division Club in New York, we are hoping for help for the 26th Division Club from persons not directly conected with this division as well as those directly concerned. FELIX W. KNAUTH 1G.B...
...hand, the college man stands, to a certain degree, aloof from the rank and file of the nation. A ward boss has a ten to one chance of defeating him in a municipal election. Therefore, he avoids local politics. And, on the other hand, the college man's interest in his own affairs, his desire to make more money, and to avoid controversy and compromise turns his course into business, or anything but politics...
...surmounting of both these obstacles rests largely with the college man himself. Of course the electorate needs education; but much less than it is easy to suppose. If college men would strive to get in touch with the electorate and enter local politics in large numbers they would soon oversome the present misunderstandings...
Subscriptions received yesterday put the Endowment Fund total over the three-quarter mark in the drive for $15,250,000. The main part of the contributions have come in from cities and towns outside of the Boston and New York districts, but, as the local district has been averaging $3,000 daily for the past week, the quota of $6,000,000 for the Boston district is nearly seventy-six per cent subscribed...