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Virtually all the organizational work for these appeals for money is centered in Wadsworth House, the home of the Fund. Few undergraduates have probably heard of the Fund; but none will be out of College for any length of time without gaining a considerably better knowledge of its activities. While these activities, may prove irksome to the young, impecunious graduate, they are extremely important for the College. In the 30 years of its existence, the Fund has contributed $8,000,000 to its unrestricted endowment and, at the present rate, will add $800,000 each year. Since...
...actual mechanics of the Fund rest with the class agents. Most of them come from the Boston-Cambridge area, since they must work quite closely with Wadsworth House. McCord tries to know each of his agents personally--he has dealt with 318 of them, spanning 101 years--and thus increasing the Fund's efficiency...
...when already there had been 140 years to fill it "with harmless ghosts walking in the corridors." A house had stood on the same site since the founding of Cambridge in the 1630s, but he was referring to the "Gambrel-roofed house" built in 1730, barely four years after Wadsworth House, which (if you ignore the latter's brick bustle) it exactly resembled. The house was privately owned until 1871, but its close ties to the University began with the moving in of Jonathan Hastings Jr., A.B. 1730, who was Harvard's steward for thirty years...
...singles, the Crimson's Pete Stone dropped three quick games to Harvey Allen, but in the number two position Jeff Eaton barely lost three extra-point games to Gerry Farns-worth of Middlesex. Walter Blanchard lost 3 to 1 at third singles, while Yardling fourth and fifth men, Ed Wadsworth and Wally Stimpson, won 3 to 0 and 3 to 2 respectively...
...Monday defeated Trinity College of Canada, 3 to 2. The summaries: Drummond (T) d. Stone, 15-11, 7-15, 15-10, 15-4; Meighn (T) d. Eaton, 15-2, 12-15, 15-9, 15-12; Blanchard (H) d. Proctor, 3-15, 15-12, 15-9, 8-15, 16-13; Wadsworth (H) d. Wells, 15-5, 15-7, 15-8; Weld (H) d. Wortherspoon...