Word: towards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advance of the Harvard Endowment Fund to the three-quarter mark toward the goal of $15,250,000 is slow but steady. Gifts from the West flow in, but not at the much increased rate expected in consequence of the trip and victory of the football team...
...most beautiful thing in the world and then conceive of God as something still more beautiful"--as an example of "narrow sectarian religion." But I for one am unwilling that these opinions of the CRIMSON should stand to the world at large, unchallenged, as the Harvard attitude toward real, personal, dynamic Christianity. I am theologically a liberal and have no sympathy with the emotional piety that often masquerades as religion; but if any idealistic conception of God must be classed as "narrow" and "sectarian," and if any religious purpose must be suavely generalized; a priori, as impractical, I beg leave...
Subscriptions to the Endowment Fund continue to roll in to the various headquarters, those in Boston averaging more than 20 a day. The effect of the football team's trip to Pasadena, toward speeding up Western subscriptions is not very great, but still it is expected that many more pledges from the Pacific Coast sources will come...
When asked by a CRIMSON reporter whether there would probably be a tendency toward the lowering of the present high wages and high prices, Professor Caryer replied, "For the immediate future probably not. The high prices at present are due to the fact that the demand fax exceeds the supply. As fast as articles are produced they are bought up by eager consumers who are willing to pay extravagant prices in order to get the products...