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...McCord's graceful prose has generally succeeded in catching alumni. His essay on the alewives, enclosed in a letter for the 1960 alumni fund, inspired 1,100 alumni who had already donated to send in second checks totaling more than $37,000 McCord's grand total over the years...
Harvard has honored McCord with a scholarship in his name and, in 1956, its first honorary Doctor of Humane Letters...
...McCord's own rewards have always been poetry, or an afternoon passed in intelligent conversation, or a long night turning out well-honed prose-as impeccably polished for an answer to a griping alumnus as for an essay on the woods of New Hampshire. McCord estimates that his yearly prose output has averaged 700,000 words,"or seven novels of the old style." His old-style rule is that "a letter always deserves a letter...
...word oo-too-koo means "small and I wish it were bigger." One Harvardman wrote during the Depression to explain in a flurry of metallic puns his inability to donate: "I am an aluminum of two colleges besides Harvard, and can not pay antimony to all three." McCord's answer was a simple "Iron stand you." To the 35% of Harvard alumni who had never heeded his call, McCord one year hopefully anticipated the day when he could write to them a couplet he originally composed as an Epitaph for a Waiter...
Except for five early years on the Boston Evening Transcript, McCord has been at Harvard ever since he graduated in 1921. He says that in retirement, "Chinese, Greek, Debussy, tobacco, trout are the things I want to investigate-in that order...