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Nearly $70,000 was contributed in the Boston district yesterday to the University Endowment Fund as the result of the class canvass of the past three weeks. This brings the general fund to 71 per cent. of the required amount, and places Boston more than half a million dollars ahead of New York...
...acting in a very large and very generous way Mr. Frick did a notable public service; and so far as Princeton, Technology, and Harvard are concerned, he greatly relieved a precarious situation. His will is truly remarkable. Of the entire estate five-sixths, or approximately one hundred and seventeen million dollars, is to be devoted solely to the interests of the general public--to charity, art, and education...
Harvard's share, which has been estimated at five million dollars, is the largest unrestricted gift this University has ever received. That it comes as a surprise enhances its value; it will give new impetus to the Endowment Fund...
While there he traveled over 20,000 miles, and studied closely the workings of the Soviet regime, during which time he met most of the members of the Soviet Cabinet, including Premier Lenine. Among other things he assisted in the smuggling of a million copies of President Wilson's "Fourteen Points" printed in German, into the Austrian and German lines...
...wisdom of reorganizing the Harvard Endowment Fund Campaign on a class team basis will, we hope, be amply justified. Already the drive has taken on new vigor, and at the present rate the quota of fifteen million dollars should be filled by the end of the year...