Word: sponsoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council's recommendation, the orientation Smoker would be under the direction of a committee appointed by the Crimson Key. The Council would then be playing its customary and valuable role as sponsor of functions early in the Freshman year. The Council should not, however, try to extend its services through the whole year, is it has done by proposing a full freshman social calendar along with the Smoker recommendation. Beyond the introductory weeks, the freshmen should be free to map out their own social schedule as their elected committees...
...several Illinois Democratic politicians who bought io^-a-share stock in the Chicago Downs Association and made a profit of 1,650% in two years. Mulroy's stock transactions occurred after the 1949 Illinois general assembly passed and Governor Stevenson signed a bill to permit Chicago Downs to sponsor harness racing...
...musicals cost about $300,000 to produce. With TNT you can make back your complete investment in one night. We'll be able to do complete plays because we won't have to worry about time segments or how much it's going to cost a sponsor." Halpern even offers hope to the cultural minorities who are often slighted by television: he plans to set up a network in the art movie houses and present full-length telecasts of operas and ballets...
...Harvard Band's TV performance last Sunday was a perplexing one. It was not the music that confused us, but the fact that one student organization could appear on a commercially backed show when last November another, the Rugby Club, was refused the same right. The Band's sponsor may have been a charity, as Dean Watson explained, but after all, the Connecticut Cerebral Palsy Association, which had planned the Rugby contest, is not exactly Palmolive-Peet. Apparently the Dean's Office and the Corporation, which ruled on the Rugby case, differ on whether to classify charities as commercial sponsors...
Whatever this tableau's specific origins, the basic trouble is the Corporation's rule forbidding groups that grace their name with Harvard to perform on commercially sponsored shows. Why the administration maintains this rule is still none too clear, except that it obviously involves fear for Harvard's reputation. Perhaps the Corporation is afraid that people will suspect it of selling the use of Harvard to purveyors of soap and toothpaste. Why anyone, however, should confuse a student group's appearance on radio with official endorsement of its sponsor any more than he confuses football sportscasts with official endorsement...