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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Class of '89 has already made pledges of $34,485, almost $3000 short of the record set in 1986. This year's class gift could end up as much as $15,000 more than last year's total. In addition, the partipation rate has risen from 33 percent to almost 45 percent, according to Class Gift Committee Co-Chair Jack Orchard...
Students usually earmark about 75 to 80 percent of money donated to the class gift for scholarships, said Orchard. The remainder passes into the "current-use fund" to help pay for maintenance of museums, libraries, athletic facilities, and faculty salaries...
Even with the total amount of donations reaching a possible record, the participation rate of about 45 percent is slightly below average, as in some years as much as 60 percent have contributed...
...spoke up a few minutes later, saying "I see it primarily as an institution and employer that wants to be enlightened with its employees, but also as a practical institution that does not want to put 50 percent of the population in a position to choose whether to be a scholar at Harvard-Radcliffe or caring for the family at home...
...Economically, it's also a problem. If you are [a professional] in China you can't get more than $20 a month. 80 percent of my graduate school class [in China] wants to live in the United States...