Word: funds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enclosed you will find a contribution of one dollar to the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association. I wish to state my sincere regret that it was not possible for this contribution to have been made through the Harvard Student Council's Service Fund...
...should be made clear that students cannot be treated as the "fellow citizens of Cambridge" to which your appeal is addressed. Our anomalous position has led to the unification of our charitable contributions through the Service Fund, the distribution of which among charities is determined by student vote...
Perhaps any one charity which conducted a separate campaign among the students as you are doing would raise a larger sum of money than would be obtained through the Service Fund, yet this is true only because of the existence of the Fund. Harvard students with the above good reasons for giving a limited amount would not tolerate seven or eight solicitations each year, and the total Harvard contribution to Cambridge would be reduced...
While results of the Service Fund drive were not completely tabulated, the campaign seemed certain to fall short by at least $9,000 of the $25,000 target. Even though further contributions were expected to dribble in to meet this exigency, the Council voted (1) to curtail sharply grants to charities, (2) to economize on projected Council work, and (3) to reduce the number of Harvard National Student Association delegates to the national convention at Madison, Wisconsin, next summer...
...prevent future service fund difficulties, the Council voted to institute a regular, continuous, and partially self-perpetuating committee, on the order of the Community Fund organization, to handle future solicitations to the fund...