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Yale closed its 250th anniversary last spring, but will mark two other anniversaries this year. One is the 200th anniversary of the oldest standing building on the campus--Connecticut Hall...
Alumni donations, which reached $508,765 in 1949 and jumped to the $1,000,000 mark last year when Yale celebrated its 250th anniversary, were even higher in "normal" 1951-52. The total: $1,015,418 -the largest unrestricted contribution any college or university has ever received through its alumni fund in one year. In ready cash, the gift is equivalent to the income from $25 million in carefully invested endowment...
Delegates also approved a resolution cal ing for a vigorous, worldwide evangelist] campaign in 1953, the 250th anniversar of the birth of Methodism's founder, Joh Wesley. As the titular leader of U.S. Mett odists, Philadelphia's 56-year-old Bisho Fred P. Corson, new president of the Metf odist Council of Bishops, puts the emphasi on attracting youth. "The Communist! Fascists and ultra-fundamentalists, like tb Youth for Christ," he said, "all came t power via the youth movement. We mu< face that fact and recognize that they suf plies some sort of inner urge...
...Yale Fund led with $1,010,000 collected during its 250th anniversary year with Dartmouth getting $577,000, and Princeton $529,000. All these sums are unrestricted gifts collected annually through class agents...
...some powerful support from beyond the campus. Men like General Motor's Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and Frank W. Abrams of Standard Oil (N.J.) have long been trying to persuade their colleagues that industry has a stake in higher education. Last month, at Yale's 250th anniversary, Irving S. Olds, chairman of the board of U.S. Steel, sounded the call again...