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Statistics on the Harvard Fund for 1928 published yesterday by the Harvard Fund Council reveal an increase of 807 contributors and $32,077 contributed, over the figures for the previous year. In 1927, 4,832 alumni contributed $152,285, while last year $184,362 was received from 5,639 contributors...
...fund, which started in 1926, has grown steadily since, and the fourth annual appeal for contributions is being made this week...
Futher study of the survey reveals that while in 1927 the graduating class furnished more contributors to the fund than any other class, the Seniors last year ranked only seventh in the list, which was headed by the Class of 1903 with 465 contributors. The Class of 1927 again ranked high taking second place this time, while 1900 was third, 1904 fourth, 1908 fifth, and 1906 sixth...
Announcement was made yesterday of the recipients of grants from the $250,000 fund given Harvard last January by the General Education Board, an institution supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, for research work in the humanities...
Nine grants to Harvard professors were voted from this fund, which is to be used over a period of five years, by the committee of five recently appointed to administer the yearly appropriations. The Division of Ancient Languages and the Division of Modern Languages are given aid in the publication of Harvard Studies in Philology. E. K. Rand '94 will receive a grant for a survey of the manuscripts of Tours and work on Horace, Virgil, and Ovid. C. N. Greenough '98, Professor of English is enabled to secure an assistant and two cataloguers to assist him in preparing...