Word: lettere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gotten our wrong information from two sources," YPH President Lowell P. Beveridge, Jr. '52 said last night. "One was a recent letter to the Council and the other was Ed Burke (Edward F. Burke '50, Council president). In both cases it was our fault...
...letter was from the United Negro College Fund, the charity used last year and which supports segregated schools. "We are deeply grateful and extremely proud that the students of Harvard University have given their support to the Fund," the letter began...
...didn't read the letter carefully," Beveridge said. "We thought it meant Harvard was supporting the Fund this year." Actually, the letter was just to thank the College for its contribution last fall, and to ask for support again this year...
Beveridge said a YPH man had asked Burke about the letter, and that Burke...
Beveridge admitted the YPH mistake after reading the letter again, phoning Burke, and talking to George J. Feeney '50, chairman of the Charities Drive. Feeney told him there actually were two Negro funds, and that the Drive had switched to the non-segregated one after last year's complaints...