Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success of any drive can only be determined by the final tabulation of statistics. And this year the Fund broke its previous high of $704,000 as a total of 18,585 graduates gave $807,412 for an average gift of $43.45. These figures represent a ten-dollar increase in average gift in two years, plus a record 41.7 percent of the total graduate body which gave in 1955. This performance raised the overall thirty-year figures, so that now 36,000 out of 44,000 graduates--82 percent--have given $8,000,000 to the College...
...Harvard Fund must finally depend on the relationship between the College and the graduate. In maintaining this relationship, McCord attempts to foster a friendly, relaxed attitude between his office and the graduates. Emphasis in the letters lie on the academic rather than the athletic. Complaints and compliments are gratefully received and get a personal reply from McCord because he feels that "if a man cares enough about his college to give, he should feel free to complain or offer suggestion...
...alumnus feels that he is considered as an individual, not a sum of money. It makes him more ready to accept the fact that grants of large corporations cannot alone support the College and that he must do his share to carry the load. Thus, although the 1955 fund ended in December, and the 1956 drive does not begin until April, 230 graduates have already mailed in $30,000 without being solicited...
Perhaps the most common reason for giving to the Fund was expressed in a talk by Edward Streeter '14, author of Father of the Bride. "Although the graduate's memories will differ in detail, they will be basically similar to mine, and he will sigh with regret that an era so good, so rich, so colorful, so filled with giants and genius and laughter, should have passed away forever--and then he will fumble in the lower drawer of his desk for his checkbook...
...will have the chance to demonstrate once and for all that the United States is in the economic assistance business to stay. In the face of the annual Congressional demands to end the "give-away program," Mr. Dulles has already announced Administration plans to set aside a special fund of $100 million for long-term aid projects. Although the fund is minute as federal budgets go, it is a clear and welcome recognition that foreign economic aid must be an important continuing part of U.S. policy...