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Ginn stood firm on his decision, however, and surrendered his post as class agent. Incidents like this are few, McCord points out, but nevertheless regrettable. In his work, he tries to ironout such difficulties before they attain a certain notoriety...
...gift has been entirely a product of the initiative of each individual class. The Fund Council office never puts pressure of a class in the last stages of its campaign. The size of the goal and the amount of the final donation is determined by the class itself. McCord feels that in this matter, the relations between the Fund and the alumni remain much more relaxed and cordial. In the long run the College profits more than it would with high-pressure techniques...
Besides its primary role of fund-raising, the Fund Council office also acts as a sort of informal public relations center. Until recently, when the College started a special office for this purpose, McCord's mailbox was one of the only areas for graduate opinion. McCord makes it a point to answer all letters personally and deal with as many alumni as he possibly...
When Edwin Ginn '18 resigned as class agent because of the appointment of J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 as William James Lecturer for 1957, McCord spoke with him at some length about the problem and tried to convince Ginn that the one event such as a year's appointment should not make him forget all the other things which made him proud of Harvard...
...other extreme of public relations, McCord received the following message several years ago: "My friends of the Fund I greatly fear/ I cannot be dunned/ For another year/ It now costs me/ Five thousand dollars/ To make children three/ From books to scholars/ Of this large sum/ Old Harvard fair/ To teach my son/ Now gets her share/ So I ask ye/ At this costly time/ Please patient be/ Till I have a dime...