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...annual alumni contribution of the University for 1936 is, to date, approximately twice as large as that received last year. Although figures could not be obtained on the detailed progress of the University's Tercentenary money-raising program, it was judged from the announcement by Harvard Fund Headquarters in Wadsworth House that Tercentenary gifts were rolling in at double the rate of that of ordinary years. This fact is particularly note worthy is view of the fact that the solicitation of Seniors this year did not take place until April and June 6, instead of March...
There was a time when Harvard College boasted an endowment of $5,190,000 and a telephone. That was on August 30, 1886 when John L. Taylor was given a position as junior clerk in the Wadsworth House Bursar's office. Today, 50 years afterward, as Auditor, he deals with an endowment of $128,800,000, transacts his business through one of the University's 6000 phone extensions...
...Step by step," gloomed Representative James W. Wadsworth in the House one day last fortnight, "the House of Representatives is losing its place as an institution. . . . We do not originate much more than the enacting clause of most legislation...
...utility company should profit by the sale of additional electricity in districts where it does not now care to risk its own money on transmission lines, power companies raised little objection to the Norris bill. Only serious kick last week came from New York's Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., who feared that by lending 100% of the cost of such projects the U. S. would risk a lot more money than it would ever get back. Said this onetime Senator scathingly: "I predict that if an act of God strikes one of these lines, the Government will have...
...more than 4-to-1 his House colleagues voted down the Wadsworth proposition that farmers should be required to put up 15% of the cost. Congressmen could easily imagine thousands of farmers sitting under the glow of electric lights listening to their radios and nodding approvingly next November as an announcer broadcasts the news of their benefactors' reelection...