Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...usual there will be the section concerning the University Administration and one about the Alumni Association, which will include a list of the secretaries of the classes, the officers of the Alumni Association, and the Harvard Clubs. Very complete statistics about the sports last spring and this fall will be included in the athletic section...
...received yesterday from the graduate drive showed that the campaign among the graduates according to classes had been a success, although it had fallen short of the $2,800,000 mark which had been set. This campaign, which lasted only four weeks, resulted in adding 2000 formerly non-subscribing alumni to the Endowment Fund roster and in the receipt of an additional million dollars. This was achieved in the face of adverse financial conditions both at home and abroad, and without the incentive of the initial effort of last year...
When this campaign among the alumni according to classes finished, the Executice Committees of a number of classes asked to be allowed to continue the canvass with the object both of bettering the class average and of adding a few more thousand dollars in the belief that it may encourage others to join in raising the remaining $1,800,000 needed...
...University had to choose between getting the desired $15,250,000 through the gifts of a few of its graduates and the triumphant united support of all its alumni and students, even with a failure to raise the whole amount, it would surely and confidently choose such a demonstration of its vital hold on its community...
...complete success of the Endowment Fund can only be attained by a hundred per cent, effort--an effort that includes every Harvard man. It is obvious that responsibility for the success of this drive rests as much with the undergraduates as with the alumni. The latter are at present engaged in a second effort to put the Fund over; many are doubling their subscriptions. On the other hand, this is the first opportunity the undergraduates have had to help shoulder this responsibility. We urge that every man in the College carefully consider this matter and do his part to make...