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...last year, Phillips Brooks House could boast that one out of every five undergraduates was contributing some of his time to the growing list of PBH activities. But despite this increase in student interest, the group's program faces damaging curtailment. As the plight of its Mental Hospitals Committee illustrates, PBH does not have a large enough annual income...
This acute financial shortage was the inevitable result of the method by which the Combined Charities Drive has been conducted since 1948. Ever since the Combined Charities Committee and the Student Council agreed to allow students to allocate their own donations, the amount given to PBH has steadily decreased. From a high of $5,000 in 1947, the total dropped to about $1,600 last year...
Before 1947, the House conducted its own fund-raising appeal. Cooperating with the Student Council's plan to have one drive for all charities, it gave up its campaign in 1948. In return the Council made in informal guarantee to "allot to PBH. . . the sum the Council considers necessary to aid in its operation, provided that PBH shall not conduct an individual drive for funds...
With this understanding, PBH joined Combined Charities. Just one year later, however, the Drive committee changed its policy, permitting students to select their own charities. Consequently, the money donated to Brooks House, while usually the largest single amount, fell considerably from the 1947 high...
Last year PBH received the largest sum of money from the Drive. But according to Brooks House President Edward A. Nordlinger '56, it must receive even more--"at least $2,200"--to meet its budget this year...